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Understanding sports culture /
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has written that contemporary sport is 'born of truly popular games' and returns to them 'in the form of spectacles produced for the people'. Another well-known French intellectual, the former Manchester United football star Eric Cantona, ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Los Angeles ; London :
Sage Publications,
Ã2007.
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| Colección: | Understanding contemporary culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has written that contemporary sport is 'born of truly popular games' and returns to them 'in the form of spectacles produced for the people'. Another well-known French intellectual, the former Manchester United football star Eric Cantona, has suggested that sport is important because it is one of the few areas of life that is capable of eliciting passion, that people actually care about. Understanding the Field of Sport traces the development of that process from play and folk games to media spectacle, and explains why sport constitutes one of the most im. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (150 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-145) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848607460 1848607466 9781446212189 1446212181 |