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  • Leiden : Brill
  • Sports Science
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789004464704
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 320 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Series Statement: International studies in sport and society volume1
    Series Statement: International studies in sport and society
    Uniform Title: Einführung in die Sportsoziologie
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Weiss, Otmar Introduction to the sociology of sport
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Weiß, Otmar, 1953 - Introduction to the sociology of sport
    DDC: 306.483
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    Keywords: Sports Sociological aspects ; Lehrbuch ; Sportsoziologie ; Sportsoziologie
    Abstract: "The sociology of sport is a relatively new scientific discipline, which has spread rapidly and developed in different directions across the world. It investigates social behavior, social processes, and social structures in sport, as well as the relationship between sport and society. The book Introduction to the Sociology of Sport aims to give its readers a comprehensive overview of this fascinating topic. For this purpose, it shows the interrelations between sport and identity, social class, gender, socialization, social groups, (mass) communication, the economy, and politics. In addition, the book introduces a new, innovative theory that helps readers understand the social specificity and worldwide popularity of sport"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285 - 316 , Translated from German
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis  (lizenzpflichtig)
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789004287730
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 244 pages , color illustrations , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde volume 299
    Series Statement: Power and place in Southeast Asia volume 7
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Wilson, Lee, 1966 - Martial arts and the body politic in Indonesia
    DDC: 796.81509598
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    Keywords: Pencak silat Political aspects ; Martial arts Anthropological aspects ; Power (Social sciences)
    Abstract: "Offers an innovative study of nationalism and the Indonesian state through the ethnography of the martial art of Pencak Silat. Wilson shows how technologies of physical and spiritual warfare such as Pencak Silat have long played a prominent role in Indonesian political society. He demonstrates the importance of these technologies to the display and performance of power, and highlights the limitations of theories of secular modernity for understanding political forms in contemporary Indonesia. He offers a compelling argument for a revisionist account of models of power in Indonesia in which authority is understood as precarious and multiple, and the body is politically charged because of its potential for transformation"--
    Description / Table of Contents: From out of the shadowsBodies of knowledge : the pedagogy of pencaksilat -- Blessings, bone setting and the blood of the ancestors -- The management of tradition -- From the mystical to the molecular -- Sovereign bodies and the practicalities of power.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index
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