Pretence Daily Life: Truco Game as Imaginary Mechanism to Escape Reality

Authors

  • Alexandre Santos Pinheiro Universidade Federal de Viçosa
  • Alexandre de Pádua Carrieri Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Keywords:

Avoidance of the real, Imaginary, Existential emptiness, Ethnography, Truco game

Abstract

This paper looking for to talk about the Truco game like an element would allow the existence of the players because it would make their realities minimally bearable. We studied the symbolic dimensions of a Truco game that have happened along 23 years in a business organization. In this game “pawn shop floor” and “deputy CEO” have played. We used ethnography to catch the data. Participant observation and interviews helped us to catch the data. The players´ve meaning mean their work reality

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Published

2014-06-30

How to Cite

1.
Pinheiro AS, Carrieri A de P. Pretence Daily Life: Truco Game as Imaginary Mechanism to Escape Reality. Organ. Soc. [Internet]. 2014Jun.30 [cited 2024Nov.22];21(70). Available from: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaoes/article/view/11371

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 70 (2014)

Section

Articles

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