..".forcefully and effectively opposes cultural models that
strongly dichotomize social reproduction and social recreation." .
JRAI
"an interesting anthropological attempt, or, rather, an
impressive empirical contribution to exploring diverse contemporary
themes in modern sports and leisure activities. In many ways, their
book, which comprises of nine different and exciting empirical
cases covering a rich ethnographic area, intends to expand and
broaden the term "sport" as something more than just purely being
an activity carried out for mental, physical or bodily restitution;
it is a site of meaning production as well as consumption performed
by individuals across the globe. ... the book represents an
important contribution to the study of leisure." .
Idrottsforum.org
The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has
emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and
place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a
different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as
part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately
juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and
which often involves specific bodily practices associated with
hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a
site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation
of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and
forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary
ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.
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