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Sport, Identity and Ethnicity (Paperback, Us)
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Sport, Identity and Ethnicity (Paperback, Us)
Series: Ethnicity and Identity Series
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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.
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