Reflections on an investigative experience with capoeira

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the movements of an investigative experience with capoeira. The description shows the deviations and transgressions that witness certain propensity to becoming in the methodological approach. We seek to map the ways in which procedures were deconstructed and transformed into field research. We intend to understand how the researcher’s involvement with the field forces regulatory principles of action to their limits, keeping an investigative stance in the tension between the referential function - which points to the regular application of procedures - and the propensity for becoming. Thus, the introduction of intensity is shown in the research relationship. The record of that intensity feeds this description.