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This collection illustrates the expansiveness of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sport
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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 Mexico the historical examination of Jews in American sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society
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