Laço, ritual, máscara e mimese: um olhar para o brincar sob a ótica da compreensão

Abstract

This essay takes a stroll through the fields of playing, communicating and their relations. Thus, beginning with the etymology of the verb to play, we identify the adherence between this action and communication such  as  it  is  understood  in  the  Centro  Interdisciplinar  de  Semiótica  da Cultura e da Mídia (Cisc), a research group linked to the Graduate Program  in  Communication  and  Semiotics  of  the  Catholic  University  of São Paulo (PUC-SP). We connect religion and communication based on  Miklos,  religion  and  ritual  based  on  Eliade  and  ritual  and  game  based in Huizinga. Then, we expand the scope of our subject based on Caillois by drawing attention to the concept of mimesis in both Gebauer and Wulf simultaneously. Our main idea is that the act of playing may be  circumscribed  in  a  comprehensive  manner  by  applying  different theoretical  points  of  view  from  different  fields  of  knowledge,  thus attempting to embrace new horizons for comprehension as a method.