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Author Dyck, Noel, author

Title Fields of play : an ethnography of children's sports / Noel Dyck
Published North York, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2012]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
Series Teaching culture : UTP ethnographies for the classroom
Teaching culture.
Contents Encountering the fields of play -- "What kids really need": the systematizing of sport in Canada -- Becoming sport parents -- Organizing and coaching community sports -- Becoming athletes and players -- Pulling together and apart in community sports -- Sporting dreams -- How the game is played
Summary Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, garnered relatively little attention by social scientists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sports for children -- Social aspects -- Canada
Community life -- Canada
Ethnology -- Canada.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Community life
Ethnology
Sports for children -- Social aspects
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442686588
1442686588
9781442604179
1442604174