Instant Acceleration: Living in the Fast Lane : The Cultural Identity of Speed - Couverture rigide

Sands, Robert R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0819195847 ISBN 13 : 9780819195845

Editeur : University Press of America, 1994

Synopsis

This book is about the relationship between blackness, ethnicity, and speed. It is an in-depth ethnographic and anthropological study of a population of collegiate sprinters, constructed upon a formal model of ethnic and cultural identity which sees social interaction, expressed in the order and arrangement of social identities, as a means of establishing social networks through universal or cognitive rules. This study also introduces a unique method of intensive participant-observation; to really study a population, one must actively participate, placing the researcher in the social identity of those being studied. Contents: List of Photographs; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Faces; The Ethnographic Pursuit of Speed; Cognition and Identity; Fall 1987; Winter 1988; Spring 1988; Summer 1988; The Eternal Season; Index.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Robert R. Sands is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819195847
• ISBN 13: 9780819195845
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible