Sport is now a major industry -- and one of increasing importance throughout both the developed and developing world -- but, until now, it has received little serious attention from anthropologists. In this first general book on the anthropology of sport, the contributors look at how different sports are used by a wide variety of peoples to express, manipulate and negotiate their identities, and to challenge the way they are defined by others.
Chapters address:
-the role played by football teams in colonial Zimbabwe to express locals' autonomy from their British...
Sport is now a major industry -- and one of increasing importance throughout both the developed and developing world -- but, until now, it has rece...
This volume takes a fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities, they are replaced by a variety of incomers including neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists and rural labour migrants from beyond the EU. Contributors to this book examine the consequences of these major shifts in rural populations, and analyse the creation of new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organisation. As incomers' dreams come face to face with residents' realities, they...
This volume takes a fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. A...
