ISBN:
9780415840408
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9781135022358 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
330 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781135022358
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
DDC:
306.4830952
Abstract:
〈P〉There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu and Foucault, it explains the significance of the body as a field of action and a topic of discourse in molding subject and society in modern Japan. More specifically, it provides answers to questions such as how and to what purposes are politics of the body articulated in Japan, particularly in th...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
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