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Informationen zum Autor Orin Starn is Professor and Chair of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes and a co-editor of The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, both also published by Duke University Press. His most recent book is the award-winning Ishi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian. An avid golfer with a five handicap, Starn has written about golf for the Los Angeles Times and other newspapers and provided commentary on ESPN and NPR. He blogs about golf at golfpolitics.blogspot.com and regularly teaches a course about sports and society. Klappentext Starn examines the career of Tiger Woods, from child star to global sports celebrity. The author shows that the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years, and he brings an anthropologist's perspective to bear on Tigergate. Zusammenfassung This book examines the career of Tiger Woods! from child star to global sports celebrity. Starn shows that while the scandal following the revelation of Tiger's infidelities was like many similar media-generated scandals of recent years! by examining the way Woods was seen afterwards! we can learn a lot about race and sex in contemporary America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue ix 1. Golf Backward Spells "Flog" 1 2. The Tiger Woods Revolution 23 3. Tigergate, Celebrity Scandal, and the Apology Society 39 4. Internet Wars, Sex Addiction, and the Crucifixion of Tiger Woods 55 5. Postracial Fantasies, Racial Realpolitik 67 6. Tiger's Penis 85 7. Out of the Woods? 107 Notes 119 Bibliography 129 Acknowledgments 135 Index 137
