Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 perform witchcraft and ingest substances making sport a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes the social cultural political and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body modernity nationalism the state citizenship transnationalism globalization and gender and sexuality.
Title: The Anthropology Of Sport Bodies Borders Biopolitics
Author(s): Carter Thomas F.
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520289017
Pages: 336 Pages, 21 B-W Halftones, 1 Line Art
Publication Date: 12/8/2017
Category: Sports & Outdoor Recreation