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Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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Despite a widely held, and not entirely erroneous, view that the
cultures of East and Southeast Asia commonly favour the mind over
the body or, at least mental activity rather than physical
endeavour, this collection of essays sheds light on the wide range
of diverse ways in which sport and body cultures feature in that
part of the world. Contributors to the collection work in many
different countries but are united in their shared interest in
increasing our understanding of the social role of sport and body
cultures which is manifest in their work. The countries that are
discussed are Indonesia, the People's Republic of China, Singapore,
Taiwan, South Korea, and the former Netherlands New Guinea. Themes
considered in these chapters are the implications of hosting sport
events, the focus on sport and the body by a group of Buddhist
monastics, belly dancing in the lives of women in Taiwan, the
sociopolitical role of the scouting movement in a colonial setting,
and issues relating to the functioning of sport clubs. The chapters
were originally published in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and
Social Science.
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