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The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics

By Niko Besnier , Susan Brownell , Thomas F. Carter

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2017
ISBN
0520289005, 9780520289000
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3691678 bytes)
Pages
336\336
Time added
2019-04-27 16:27:15

Description

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances. Sport is a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.

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