{"id":47822,"date":"2025-01-26T04:42:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/an-opportunistic-portrait-of-passionate-football-fans-on-the-streets-in-medellin-anthropolitan\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T04:42:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T04:42:58","slug":"an-opportunistic-portrait-of-passionate-football-fans-on-the-streets-in-medellin-anthropolitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=47822","title":{"rendered":"An opportunistic portrait of passionate football fans on the streets in Medell\u00edn \u2013 Anthropolitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">By<br \/><strong>David Edgar<\/strong><br \/><em>PhD Anthropology<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Las Barras\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F8PCCO2014w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">A cacophony of drumming, chanting, and explosions drifts through my window. I grab my camera and run into the street. It\u2019s <em>las barras<\/em>: fervent football fans with a reputation for passionate devotion, but also violence (analogous but not exactly synonymous with \u201chooligans\u201d; \u201c<em>barras<\/em>\u201d does not imply inherent violence). Today these devotees of Independiente Medellin are touring the stadium on foot and on trucks ahead of a match \u2014 they chant songs (accompanied by drummers and trumpeters), wave flags; many share <em>aguardiente<\/em> (a local liquor) and <em>perico<\/em> (cocaine). They throw small explosives, one of which fucks up the sound on my camera. You\u2019ll note the majority of this clip does not have sync sound \u2014 I had to play with what little I had.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, I\u2019ve been <em>playing <\/em>with my camera and footage here in Medellin whilst conducting fieldwork on gyms and \u201cfitness cultures.\u201d I\u2019m interested in how the camera can perceive, describe, and theorise in a way words cannot \u2014 especially in relation to embodied, non-verbal experiences and practices. What can this footage of <em>las barras<\/em> achieve that this accompanying description cannot? Can I better evoke the viscerally affective quality of that scene with images and sounds rather than words? Can I theorise about bodies, masculinity, and passion with composition and editing rather than long complex sentences littered with latinate words?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I say I\u2019m <em>playing <\/em>with my camera, because I am not sure what I\u2019m doing with it, I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019m working towards. But I know it excites me. I know it not only gives me another means of expression, but that it helps me see different things and see differently. And I know it creates different kinds of relationships, between me and my interlocutors. In the field, I was tentative at first, but quickly realised many of the people I met in Medellin\u2019s gyms love to perform for the camera (they were more likely to \u201c<em>robar c\u00e1mara<\/em>\u201d than shy away from it (\u201csteal camera\u201d, meaning to seize the spotlight). Many ask what instagram or tiktok account they will be able to see themselves on. You\u2019ll see in this video that many of these football fans wanted to be seen and heard by me \u2014 they brandish their shirts, their tattoos, their passion. But others did not \u2014 what you don\u2019t see in this video is the moment when one guy angrily asked me what the hell I was doing. \u201c<em>No me gusta no me gust<\/em>a\u201d he kept saying (\u201cI don\u2019t like it\u201d), swiping his giant flag towards me and my camera. This was a public spectacle in a public space, yet here was an enthusiastic withdrawal of consent. He may have thought I was capturing evidence, perhaps seeking to criminalise or sensationalise this community as the state or the press have done, wielding the camera as a weapon. I was dazed, and tried to explain my intentions, but heeded the advice of another man who saw the impending violence, looked me in the eye, and said: \u201c<em>corre<\/em>\u201d (\u201crun\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByDavid EdgarPhD Anthropology A cacophony of drumming, chanting, and explosions drifts through my window. I grab my camera and run into the street. 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