The anthropology of sport : bodies, borders, biopolitics
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The anthropology of sport : bodies, borders, biopolitics
(The Fletcher Jones Foundation humanities imprint)
University of California Press, c2018
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-311) and index
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Description
Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances, making sport a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports, but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 * Sport, Anthropology, and History
2 * Sport, Colonialism, and Imperialism
3 * Sport, Health, and the Environment
4 * Sport, Social Class, Race, and Ethnicity
5 * Sport and Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
6 * Sport, Cultural Performance, and Mega-events
7 * Sport, Nation, and Nationalism
8 * Sport in the World System
Epilogue: Sport for Anthropology
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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