Sport across Asia
Subtitle: politics, cultures, and identities
By: edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, and Joseph Maguire
Series: Routledge research in sport, culture and society -- v. 21
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780415884389
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Political aspects; Sports; Psychological aspects
Description: 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, history, law, sociology, various area and post-colonial studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.