Guanguancó: la corporeidad como generadora de desarrollo humano e identidad cultural

Abstract

This project gathers the relationship between human development and cultural identity throughout corporeality, taking into account guaguancó rhythm as trigger. Along human history, the body has been characterized as a desire or consumption object, resulting in forgetting it. This research covers the importance of corporeality as generator of cultural identity, around Manfred Max Neef and Arturo Rico Bovio theories about needs and satisfiers. Guaguancó rhythm (afro-cuban genre born in the colonial period and created by criollos and mestizos of Matanzas, Cuba region) was used because the chosen participants were semiprofessional salsa dancers. Given the empirical nature of salsa in the dancing sphere, dancing academies that promote this genre lack, mostly, of a deep formation of tradition that rhythms, performed by dancers, keep inside. The theoretical sequence that emerge from this problem statement allows identify the mainstreaming of corporeality in formation processes of cultural identity and, thereby, human development. This monographic work of experiences analysis, is framed under the methodology of qualitative approach, with an ethnographic design and a descriptive-explanatory type.