The Anthropology of Sport

The Anthropology of Sport
Author: Niko Besnier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520289013

"Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances, making sport a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports, but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes 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"--Provided by publisher.

Annual Review of Anthropology

Annual Review of Anthropology
Author: Bernard J. Siegel
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Annual compilation of critical articles from all areas of the discipline of anthropology.

Social Networks in Urban Situations

Social Networks in Urban Situations
Author: James Clyde Mitchell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1969
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719010354

The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.

Archaeological Ethnographies

Archaeological Ethnographies
Author: Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Archaeology
ISBN: 9781906540739

This volume charts archaeological ethnography as a new territory of engagement and research. Archaeological Ethnography is defined here as a trans-disciplinary and trans-cultural space, a meeting ground for diverse publics and researchers, in archaeology, social anthropology, and potentially other disciplines practices and traditions. It is a space that encourages and fosters dialogue, collaboration and critique on materiality and temporality, on archaeology as a social practice in the present, on the links, interactions and associations amongst things and people, on local and trans-local valorisations of past material remains. Bringing together the most notable practitioners of this new area from archaeology and social anthropology, and building on a wide range of case studies from England, Greece, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Thailand, and the United States, the volume explores issues of definition and ontology, epistemology and method, but also ethics and politics. This dialogic book will inspire readers to shape their own view and position on this emerging field, and experiment with their own archaeological ethnographies.