ISBN:
9780415884389
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 241 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in sport, culture and society 21
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities
DDC:
306.4/83095
Keywords:
Sports Psychological aspects
;
Sports and state
;
Sports Sociological aspects
;
Sports - Asia - Psychological aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 studies of cultural encounters in Central, South-East Asia, Asia Minor and the Arabian peninsula capture the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the diffusion and development of ""sport"" and body cultures. These case studies bring together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, geography
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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