The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

The Discipline of Leisure

Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'

Edited by: Simon Coleman and Tamara Kohn

Volume 4 in the series Social Identities

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450395

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The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.

Author / Editor information

Simon Coleman, Professor of Anthropology at Sussex University, spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. He obtained his undergraduate degree and PhD from Cambridge, and was a Junior Research Fellow in both Churchill College and St John's College, Cambridge. His books include The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge UP 2000), Tourism: Between Place and Performance (ed. with Mike Crang, Berghahn 2002) and Pilgrim Voices (ed. with John Elsner, Berghahn 2003).

Tamara Kohn is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She has conducted research in Scotland, Nepal, and California. Publications include Extending the Boundaries of 'Care' (1999, ed. with R. McKechnie), "Becoming an Islander through Action in the Scottish Hebrides" - JRAI 8/1: 143-158 (2002), "The Aikido Body: Expressions of Group Identities and Self-discovery in Martial Arts Training" in Dyck and Archetti (eds) Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities (Berg 2003).

Simon Coleman, Professor of Anthropology at Sussex University, spent 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. He obtained his undergraduate degree and PhD from Cambridge, and was a Junior Research Fellow in both Churchill College and St John's College, Cambridge. His books include The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge UP 2000), Tourism: Between Place and Performance (ed. with Mike Crang, Berghahn 2002) and Pilgrim Voices (ed. with John Elsner, Berghahn 2003).

Reviews

“…forcefully and effectively opposes cultural models that strongly dichotomize social reproduction and social recreation.” · JRAI

"an interesting anthropological attempt, or, rather, an impressive empirical contribution to exploring diverse contemporary themes in modern sports and leisure activities. In many ways, their book, which comprises nine different and exciting empirical cases covering a rich ethnographic area, intends to expand and broaden the term 'sport' as something more than just purely being an activity carried out for mental, physical or bodily restitution; it is a site of meaning production as well as consumption performed by individuals across the globe. ... the book represents an important contribution to the study of leisure." · Idrottsforum.org

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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1 THE DISCIPLINE OF LEISURE: TAKING PLAY SERIOUSLY Simon Coleman and Tamara Kohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I SURVEYING THE SELF
2 BOB, HOSPITAL BODYBUILDER: THE INTEGRITY OF THE BODY, THE TRANSITIVENESS OF ‘WORK’ AND ‘LEISURE’ Nigel Rapport Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3 OF METAPHORS AND MUSCLES: PROTESTANT ‘PLAY’ IN THE DISCIPLINING OF THE SELF Simon Coleman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
PART II TEMPORALITIES OF LEISURE
4 AN ADVENTURE TOURIST EXPERIENCE Maurice J. Kane and Hazel Tucker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5 REFRAMING PLACE, TIME AND EXPERIENCE: LEISURE AND ILLUSION IN MALLORCA Jacqueline Waldren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
PART III ENACTING NATIONALITY
6 ANIMAL AND HUMAN BODIES IN THE LANDSCAPES OF ENGLISH FOXHUNTING Garry Marvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
7 PLAYING LIKE CANADIANS: IMPROVISING NATION AND IDENTITY THROUGH SPORT Noel Dyck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
8 A RELAXED STATE OF AFFAIRS?: ON LEISURE, TOURISM, AND CUBAN IDENTITY Thomas F. Carter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
PART IV TRANSCENDING THE NATION
9 STAGED DISCIPLINE AS LEISURE: NOTES ON COLONIAL SOCIABILITY IN CAIRO Petra Kuppinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
10 BOWING ONTO THE MAT: DISCOURSES OF CHANGE THROUGH MARTIAL ARTS PRACTICE Tamara Kohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 210
Keywords: Travel and Tourism; Anthropology (General)

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Published: January 1, 2008
ISBN: 9780857450395