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Inventing Tradition (Paperback)
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As a one-time working cowboy in the American Southwest, the author
was intrigued to find cowboy sports in his adopted state of
Virginia. Blending scholarship and horsemanship, he competed in
dozens of cowboy contests and collected data on a group whose
members (himself included) he dubbed "Old Dominion cowboys."
Through a close reading of his fieldnotes, he identified themes
that emerge from a typical day of penning, sorting, and cutting
cattle. He analyzes these themes in the context of frontier
history, identity formation, the Western genre of entertainment,
social memory studies, and sport sociology, all in an effort to
situate cowboy sports in a cultural and historical context. Dr.
Hightower frames these rowdy sports as frontier relics that were
appropriated and modified by turn-of-the-twentieth-century cultural
leaders to mitigate the disruptive effects of modernity. Cowboy
sports thus fall under the rubric of invented tradition. Today,
they serve as avenues of identity formation and cultural expression
in ways that are both representative of and resistant to
postmodernity.
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