Sport and Memory in North America
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Sport in the Global Society
ISBN-10
0714682055
ISBN-13
9780714682051
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 2001
Print length
276 Pages
Weight
380 grams
Product Classification:
Sociology & anthropologySports & outdoor recreation
Ksh 9,700.00
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A look at sport in America today and down through its history. The book illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation's cherished values.
Cultures and nations remember themselves with select bodily images, evocative rituals and texts. This volume illustrates how sport is used in the creation, maintenance and now global dissemination of a nation''s cherished values. Carefully drawn cases of sport in North America - American baseball and football, figure skating and gymnastics, Canadian hockey and track and field, for example - show the potency of sport''s "cultural work". The book captures uplifting images which are stressed in the public performance and national and international broadcasting of sport, but also notes the omissions and distortions of social reality that persist in sport performance and mass marketing in North America.
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