| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society |
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Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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| 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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sports -- Asia -- Sociological aspects
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Sports and state -- Asia
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Sports -- Asia -- Psychological aspects
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Sports and state
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Sports -- Psychological aspects
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Sports -- Sociological aspects
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Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Krawietz, Birgit
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Maguire, Joseph
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| ISBN |
9781135114329 |
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1135114323 |
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