Ritual and Record
Subtitle: Sports Records and Quantification in Pre-Modern Societies (Contributions to the Study of World History)
Contributors: John Marshall Carter (Editor); Arnd Kruger (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: September 25, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780313256998
Subjects: Leisure; Sociology Of Sports; Sports & Recreation; History: World; History; Sports & Recreation / General; General; From ritual to record; Guttmann, Allen; Social aspects; Sports; Sports records; United States
First sentence: The scholarly discussion of sport and quantification, ritual and record, goes back fifteen years and over the past nine years has evolved into somewhat of a controversy.