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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: Playing Sport; 2 Theories of Play, Games and Sport; 3 Intimations of Sport; 4 The Field of Sport; 5 Global Sport; 6 Sport, the Media and Spectatorship; 7 From Sport to Spectacle; 8 Contemporary Sport; Bibliography; Index.