Sport, Identity and Ethnicity (Hardcover)

Sport is now a major industry -- and one of increasing importance throughout both the developed and developing world -- but, until now, it has received little serious attention from anthropologists. In this first general book on the anthropology of sport, the contributors look at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities, and to challenge the way they are defined by others.
Chapters address:
-the role played by football teams in colonial Zimbabwe to express locals' autonomy from their British rulers;
-the evolution of one of Venice's central festive occasions -- its regatta -- from a ritual of state to a sport of the people; modern and postmodern transformations of polo in Pakistan, its original home
-the resolution of problematic aspects of social life in Turkey through wrestling;
-the manner by which Catalan nationalists successfully exploited the Barcelona Olympics for their own political ends; and
-the controversy between anglers and anti-anglers in Britain.
This pioneering volume will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, sport historians and all those interested in this popular subject.

General

Imprint:	Berg Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Ethnicity and Identity Series
Release date:	March 1996
Editors:	Jeremy MacClancy
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	203
ISBN-13:	978-1-85973-140-6
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-85973-140-6
Barcode:	9781859731406

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