Abstract
This study is about the meaning of body, phenomenon studied in the materialist and phenomenological perspective. It aims to identify the epistemic relation between the concepts of corporeity and corporeality establishing parameters that relate these concepts based on the theories of knowledge of dialectical historical materialism and phenomenology. With ethnographic approach, in the methodology it utilizes tools of data collection applied to the observation of everyday life, sociobiological protocol and it treats the data by categories of analysis emerging from the theoretical approach and observing the work of stevedores and the cult of bodybuilding body. It is possible to conclude that the terminologies corporeity and corporeality are not epistemic obstacles to the understanding the body phenomenon in relation to work.