Sport across Asia politics, cultures, and identities
This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and '""encounters"" with several important ""post-colonial"" or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case stud...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;
21 Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798247506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sport Across Asia Politics, Cultures, and Identities; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Asian Sports to Sport in Asia; 1 Anthropological Perspectives on Sport and Culture: Against Sports as the Essence of Western Modernity; 2 Civilizing Bodies: Somatic Engineering in China; 3 Sport in Japan in the Early 21st Century: An Interpretation; 4 The Memory of Colonialism and Imagined Unification: Two Distinctive Natures of South Korean Sporting Nationalism in the 21st Century
- 5 Representing True Laos in Post-Colonial Southeast Asia: Regional Dynamics in the Globalization of Sport6 The Debate on 'Revival' and the Physical Culture Movement in Western India (1900-1950); 7 Martial Arts Iranian Style: Zurkhane Heavy Athletics and Wrestling Contested; 8 The Development of Mountaineering in Republican Turkey; 9 The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain as a Modern Sport Hub; Contributors; Bibliography; Index
