Sport, Identity and Ethnicity

Sport is now a major industry -- and one of increasing importance throughout both the developed and developing world -- but, until now, it has received little serious attention from anthropologists. In this first general book on the anthropology of sport, the contributors look at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities, and to challenge the way they are defined by others.Chapters address:-the role played by football teams in colonial Zimbabwe to express locals'' autonomy from their British rulers; -the evolution of one of Venice''s central festive occasions -- its regatta -- from a ritual of state to a sport of the people; modern and postmodern transformations of polo in Pakistan, its original home-the resolution of problematic aspects of social life in Turkey through wrestling; -the manner by which Catalan nationalists successfully exploited the Barcelona Olympics for their own political ends; and-the controversy between anglers and anti-anglers in Britain. This pioneering volume will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, sport historians and all those interested in this popular subject.>

Product details

• Authors: Macclancy Jeremy, Jeremy Macclancy
• Assisted by: Jeremy Macclancy (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1996
• EAN: 9781859731451
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-145-1
• No. of pages: 203
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Ethnicity & Identity Series; Ethnicity and Identity; Ethnicity and Identity Series
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Anthropologie