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Anthropology, sport, and culture

Author: Robert R Sands
Publisher: Westport, Conn : Bergin & Garvey, 1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
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Anthropology, sport, and culture.
Westport, Conn : Bergin & Garvey, 1999
(OCoLC)607121021
Online version:
Anthropology, sport, and culture.
Westport, Conn : Bergin & Garvey, 1999
(OCoLC)631799834
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert R Sands
ISBN: 0897895991 9780897895996
OCLC Number: 39042853
Description: xv, 218 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Theory and method in anthropology of sport. Anthropology and sport / Robert R. Sands ; Experiential ethnography: playing with the boys / Robert R. Sands ; Understanding cultural performance: trobriand cricket / Sally Ann Ness --
Sport, culture, race, and running. African speed, African endurance / Amby Burfoot ; The fastest White man in the world / John Hoberman ; Kenyan runners in a global system / John Bale --
Sport and culture change. The globalist of them all: the "everywhere man" Michael Jordan and the American popular culture in postcolonial New Zealand / Steven Jackson and David Andrews ; Nelson Mandela, the number 6 jersey, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup: sport as a transcendent unifying force, or a transparent illustration of bicultural opportunism / Scott Crawford ; Baseball, cricket, and social change: Jackie Robinson and Frank Worrell / Michael Malec and Hillary McD. Beckles --
Sport and cultural identity. Documenting America: ethnographies of inner-city basketball and logics of capitalism / Cheryl L. Cole and Samantha King ; Hijacking the hyphenated signifier: Donovan Bailey and the politics of racial and national identity in Canada / Steven Jackson and Kaus Meier --
Culture, sport, and ritual. Baseball magic / George Gmelch ; Into the end zone for a touchdown: a psychoanalytic consideration of American football / Alan Dundes.
Responsibility: edited by Robert R. Sands ; foreword by Kendall Blanchard.

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