The Body in the Brazilian Congress of Sports Science

This text shows partial data of an exploratory bibliographic research, in which the objective is to identify the principal conceptions of body, aesthetics and health into the scientific production of Thematic Work Groups “Memory, Culture and body” And “Body and Culture” in the CONBRACE, from 1997 to 2009. Quantitative data had been collected from the Annals of the Brazilian Congress of Sports Science (CONBRACE). The focus from the survey was the Thematic Work Groups (TWG) “Memory, Culture and body” And “Body and Culture”, and it was considered the production since 1997.  Partial results have been shown. Of all the pieces of Work presented in CONBRACE, it had 625 proceedings; 312 in the specific TWG. From the total, 171 were in the TWG Memory, Culture and Body and 141 in “body and Culture”. It identifies the increase of proceedings from 1997 to 1999. In the TWG “Memory, Culture and Body, there is a decrease from 1999 to 2003. The proceedings also decrease in the TWG “body and Cultures” in 2009. Of the Selected Works, 97.73% has the keyword body, 17.05% aesthetics, and 9.66% health. The FURN (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte) was the institution that presented most part of Proceedings in the TWG, moving the knowledge production to the center South-Southeast, becoming the most important center of knowledge production in Brazil around this theme. The research is still in its initial phase, but it is possible to understand the ways, clippings and focuses on how the education is expressed in body, health and aesthetics conceptions in the TWG’s productions and its implications to physical education teachers’ formation.