Sport, Identity and Ethnicity - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1859731406 ISBN 13 : 9781859731406

Editeur : Berg Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

Sport is now a major industry -- and one of increasing importance throughout both the developed and developing world -- but, until now, it has received little serious attention from anthropologists. In this first general book on the anthropology of sport, the contributors look at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities, and to challenge the way they are defined by others.Chapters address:- the role played by football teams in colonial Zimbabwe to express locals' autonomy from their British rulers; - the evolution of one of Venice's central festive occasions -- its regatta -- from a ritual of state to a sport of the people; modern and postmodern transformations of polo in Pakistan, its original home- the resolution of problematic aspects of social life in Turkey through wrestling; - the manner by which Catalan nationalists successfully exploited the Barcelona Olympics for their own political ends; and- the controversy between anglers and anti-anglers in Britain. This pioneering volume will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, sport historians and all those interested in this popular subject.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jeremy MacClancy Oxford Brookes University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berg Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1859731406
• ISBN 13: 9781859731406
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 203
• Éditeur: MacClancy Jeremy
• Coordonnées du fabricant: RHETT; houchen1300@163.com; ; caidianquduoshanjiedaosandiancunsanjiadian1haoA039CD; wuhanshi; hubeisheng; 430199; Chine
• Personne responsable: non disponible