A PRODUÇÃO ACADÊMICA SOBRE O MUAY THAI

Abstract

This article aimed to analyze the Brazilian academic production on Muay Thai. For that, it followed the specific objectives of raising the amount of academic articles about Muay Thai circulating on the internet; check your knowledge areas; identify what types of magazines they were published in; point out their contributions to Muay Thai. Thus, it was a descriptive bibliographic research. Data collection was performed through Google Scholar. We surveyed all existing works on Muay Thai and found 19 articles that met the criteria of this study. It was found that the publications were carried out between the years 2013 and 2020. Of the 19 studies, 50% of them were published after 2015. This appearance of publications can be justified by the entry of women in boxing disputes in the 2012 Olympic Games and in the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) in 2013. Finally, it was concluded that academic production on Muay Thai is small and recent, but seems to be expanding. Thus, Muay Thai ceases to be an exotic fight and becomes part of the body culture of movement in Brazil.