American Sports: An Anthropological Approach

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This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport

• American Sports: An Anthropological Approach available on December 17 2022 from Indigo for 208.45
  
• ISBN bar code 9780415448307 ξ1 registered December 17 2022
  
• Product category is Book

• Sku # 978041544830
  

While rooted in anthropology, these essays consider American sports in their social, economic, cultural and political aspects, charting their evolution. The book draws from history, sociology, and political science; as well as considering the relationship between the developed and developing world; and culture and masculinity.The first part of the book considers the local and global interplay of professional baseball, covering:Major League Baseball''s impact on the Dominican Republicnationalism and baseball on the Mexican/US borderthe globalizing forces of baseball as an industry.The second part of the book is concerned with the cultural examination of the responsiveness of masculinity to social and cultural forces, examining:the exaggerated world of bodybuilders in Southern Californiathe cross-cultural comparisons of male behaviour on a bi-national baseball team in Mexicothe historical examination of Jews in American sport. This book was previously published as a special issue ofSport in Society

^ American Sports: An Anthropological Approach Indigo. ISBN 9780415448307 (revised Dec 2022)