Marcel Mauss e Roger Chartier: as técnicas do corpo e o leitor entre limitações e liberdade

Abstract

From an ethnography of the everyday life of university professors, together with classical references such as Marcel Mauss and Roger Chartier, which link the fields of education, anthropology and history, this article seeks possible connections between “techniques of the body” and habitus in the act of reading. Here the practice of reading is examined through spaces and reading situations, the limitations and freedoms coming from the media and textual transcendence in the act of reading. Throughout life the individual establishes different relationships with reading and this assumes an infinite network of interaction with the reader, through processes of assembly and reassembly of the body. The reading function is thus understood as the result, always provisional, of an accumulated habilis, the skills and representations acquired through reading practices.