Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports (eBook, PDF)

Contesting Modernities
Redaktion: Vaczi, Mariann; Bairner, Alan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and diffusion of western sports and have carved out a unique position not only in spite of, but also in response to, modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000983289
• Artikelnr.: 68789467

Autorenporträt

Mariann Vaczi is Assistant Professor of Basque Studies and Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She is the author of Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom (Routledge, 2015) and Catalonia's Human Towers: Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle toward the Heights (Indiana University Press, 2023). She is the co-editor of Sport and Secessionism (Routledge, 2020). Alan Bairner Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (Routledge, 2016) and Sport and Secessionism (Routledge, 2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I - Rediscovering Heritage: Identity and Ethnopolitics
1. Oil over Turkey: UNESCO's Kirkpinar Wrestling in Edirne
2. Xam Sa Coosan
"Know your Heritage": Senegalese Wrestling and the "Rediscovery" of Ethnicity
3. Heritage
Spectacle
Ethnos: The Revival of Traditional Games in Central Asia
4. From Subalternity to Intangible Heritage and National Symbol: Catalonia's Castells
Part II - Nationalizing the Traditional
5. The Construction and Deconstruction of Kabaddi
the National Sport of Bangladesh: A Tale of Its Identity and Decline
6. A Tale of Two Sumos: Tradition and Sport
7. Ireland's Hurling
8. Finnish Pesäpallo: The Modernization and Indigenization of a Northern European Bat-and-Ball Game
Part III - Modernizing the Indigenous: "Redemptions" and Disenchantments
9. From Segregation to Integration: Changing Gender Roles in the Modernisation of Traditional Folk Sports in China
10. Traditional Chinese Martial Arts: The Naming and Development of Wushu
11. Swedish Bandy and its Struggle with Modernity
12. Playing for the Creator: Understanding the Indigenous Roots of Lacrosse
Part IV - Indigenizing the Modern: In Search of Myth
Ethos
and Symbol
13. The Symbolism of Indigenous Sport Disciplines: Sámi Sports and their Roots in Reindeer Husbandry
14. Dragon Boat: A Traditional Asian Sport with a Modern Flair
15. Beyond the Sweep: The Meanders of Capoeira as a Martial Art and Cultural Expression
16. Between Modern Sport and Ethnic Essence: The Jai Alai of Global Capitalism
and the Pelota of the Basques