Product of an ethnographic research developed during four years (2007-2010) in the East valleys of the province of Jujuy (Argentina), this article aims to discuss historical processes in a particular case, in order to establish the structure that allowed to configure relations between: socio-historical notions of "bodies", the dominant regional socio-ethnic categorizations and the deepest identity between players and supporters (hooligans) of football practiced among the "Vallistos" people.
Body; ethnicity; identities; football