The anthropology of sport : bodies, borders, biopolitics /

"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, perfo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Besnier, Niko (Author), Brownell, Susan (Author), Carter, Thomas F., 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Sports > Anthropological aspects.
Sports > Aspect anthropologique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sport, anthropology, and history
  • Sport, colonialism, and imperialism
  • Sport, health, and the environment
  • Sport, social class, race, and ethnicity
  • Sport and sex, gender, and sexuality
  • Sport as cultural performance
  • Sport, nation, and nationalism
  • Sport in the world system
  • Epilogue : sport for anthropology.

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