Sport, Culture and History: Region, Nation and Globe

ISBN-13: 9780415495660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 20 str.

Stoddart Brian

Opis

This book draws together some of Brian Stoddart's most important writings, showing how he has influenced thinking about and the analysis of sports practice in a wide variety of social and cultural settings.
This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Cricket’s Imperial Crisis: the 1932-33 M.C.C. Tour of Australia 2. Sport and Society, 1890-1940 3. The Horses Ran In Different Directions 4. Cricket, Social Formation and Cultural Continuity in Barbados: a Preliminary Ethnohistory 5. Caribbean Cricket: the Role of Sport in the Emergence of Small Nation Politics 6. Sport, Cultural Imperialism and Colonial Response in the British Empire: a Framework For Analysis 7. Sport In The Social Construct Of The Lesser Developed World: a Commentary 8. Wide World of Golf: a Research Note on the Interdependence of Sport, Culture and Economy 9. Behind The Scrum: the Cult and Culture of Rugby Union 10. Cricket, Literature and Culture: Windows On The World 11. Sport, Television, Interpretation and Practice Reconsidered 12. Golf International: :Considerations of Sport in the Global Marketplace 13. A Transnational View 14. Where Sport and Self-Image Are Synonyms 14. Orientalism, Golf and the Modern Age: Joe Kirkwood In Asia 15. Identity Spin: Imagined Cultures In Australian and Indian Cricket 16. Sport, Colonialism and Struggle: C.L.R. James and Cricket

O autorze

Professor Brian Stoddart is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at La Trobe University in Australia, and has long been recognised as a leading international authority on sports culture. He has published widely on Australian sport, sport in the British Empire, golf history and cricket, especially that of the Caribbean