Sports culture in Latin American history
By: edited by David M.K. Sheinin
Series: Pitt Latin American series; Pitt Latin American series
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780822963370
Subjects: Sports; History
Description: "As this edited volume shows, the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America.  From the late nineteenth century to the present, the contributors examine the role of sport as a political vehicle, in claims to citizenship, as a source of community and ethnic pride, as a symbol of masculinity or feminism, as allegorical performance, and in many other purposes.  The chapters juxtapose better-known activities such as boxing and soccer with first peoples' athletics in Argentina, cholita wrestling in Bolivia, the African-influenced martial art of capoeira, Japanese Brazilian gateball, and the "art deco" body ideal for postrevolutionary Mexican women, among other topics." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Laura Podalsky; title: Roberto Durán, Omar Torrijos, and the rise of Isthmian Machismo / Michael Donoghue; title: Fighting on the edge : Cholitas Luchadoras in Bolivia's Cholo revolution / Ken Lehman; title: Natural athletes : constructing Southern indigenous physicality in late nineteenth-century Argentina / Carolyne Ryan Larson; title: Japanese-Brazilian croquet in São Paulo : ethnic identity, contestation, and integration / Joshua Hotaka Roth; title: People of the book or people of the (foot)ball? : on the pitch with fans of Atlanta in Buenos Aires / Raanan Rein; title: Building bodies : creating urban landscapes of athletic aesthetics in postrevolutionary Mexico City / Ageeth Sluis; title: Boxing in the making of a Colombian Costeño identity / David M.K. Sheinin; title: From "moral disease" to "national sport" : race, nation, and capoeira in Brazil / Katya Wesolowski.