Los rituales deportivos y la violencia entre los hinchas de una barra brava de Bogotá.

Fans who are members of football firms support their team from the stands by singing songs, applauding and jumping up and down. Also, they believe that they must defend their team's colors and emblems through street violence. Outsiders characterize these activities as the manifestations of football culture and believe that this is damaged by the fans' hooliganism. The purpose of the article is to understand, from an etic perspective, football firms' celebrations and violent behavior using the social categories of ritual and violence. Thus, the activities and behaviors of fans in football firms are described with the purpose of understanding them from an outsider's perspective. Additionally, the article's methodology is based on ethnographic field work in which the researchers observed and participated in some of the activities of the Millonarios team's Blue Rain firm, in the Nemesio Camacho "El Campín" stadium in Bogotá. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]