Aikido Practice
anthropology of movement
Argentinian Football
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Children's Sports
Community Sport Organizations
cultural integration research
Embodied Identities
embodied social practices analysis
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Everyday Football
Football Association
Football Game
gender identity construction
German Football
Handball Players
Hero's Journey
Irish Dancing
moral politics of the body
national identity performance
Norwegian Football
Norwegian Handball
Norwegian League
Norwegian Public Discourses
Personal Alliances
Professional Male Football Players
qualitative fieldwork methods
Salsa Dancing
Salsa Music
Salsa Scene
Voluntary Sport Associations
Young Handball Players
Young Men
Youth Athletes
Product details
- ISBN 9781859736401
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sport and dance command the passions and devotion of countless athletes, dancers and fans worldwide. Although conventionally thought to reside within separate social realms, these two embodied cultural forms are revealed in this benchmark volume to share a vital capacity to constitute and express identities through their practiced movements and scripted forms. Thus, the work of choreographers and coaches along with the performances of dancers and athletes offer not merely entertainment and aesthetic accomplishment but also powerful means for celebrating existing social arrangements and cultural ideals or, alternately, for imagining and advocating new ones.Drawing on a wide selection of sport and dance activities from around the world, this book elucidates the ways in which embodied performances both mirror and reshape social life. It traces, for example, how football, salsa and tango can each be employed to articulate or rewrite national and gender identities. Also examined are children's sport and the dynamics by which immigration and cultural integration, along with the socialization of children and youth, may be directed through the organization of community sport. The volume investigates the marshalling of sport and dance in settings from Africa to Ireland as vehicles for framing moral issues that revolve around the appropriate use, protection and exhibition of the body. This innovative study establishes the paradoxical fashion in which dance and sport can unite certain people and communities while at the same time serving exclusionary and nationalistic purposes.
Noel Dyck Professor of Social Anthropology,Simon Fraser University Eduardo P. Archetti Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
