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America's Game(s) - A Critical Anthropology of Sport (Paperback)
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America's Game(s) - A Critical Anthropology of Sport (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the
sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime
or in the baseball academies run by American professional teams in
the Dominican Republic? With the athletes that carry a flag in
Olympic ceremonies or among the executives in the boardrooms of
Nike? The contributors argue that 'America' is located in these
familiar sites and practices but also and increasingly in these
novel contexts, where the bodies, strategies, and aspirations of
others are becoming subject to American ludic, agonistic, and moral
orders. Collectively, their contention is that American sports as a
category needs to be reconsidered, to take into account the
extensive networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving
out from American athletic institutions as well as the ever
increasing influx of talent coming from abroad that sustains
American collegiate and professional athletics. As America strives
to balance cosmopolitan objectives with resurgent nationalism, it
is critical to consider 'American sports' from within and without.
This book will be of great interest to scholars of culture,
politics, and sport. This book was previously published as a
special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
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