Sport and society in Latin America
Subtitle: diffusion, dependency, and the rise of mass culture
By: edited by Joseph L. Arbena.
Contributors: Arbena, Joseph.
Series: Contributions to the study of popular culture,; no. 20
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- Latin America.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [147]-154.
Includes index.
Table of contents: value: Sport and the study of Latin American society / Joseph L. Arbena; value: Bicycles, modernization, and Mexico / William H. Beezley; value: Forging the regional pastime : baseball and class in Yucatán / Gilbert M. Joseph; value: The case of soccer in early twentieth-century Lima / Steve Stein; value: Sport in a fractured society : Brazil under military rule / Janet Lever; value: Sócrates, Corinthians, and questions of democracy and citizenship / Matthew Shirts; value: Sport in revolutionary societies : Cuba and Nicaragua / Eric A. Wagner; value: Sport as dramaturgy for society / Robert M. Levine.