Global Sport
Subtitle: Identities, Societies, Civilizations
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: September 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745615325
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; International relations; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sports; Reference; Sports & Recreation; Sociology; Popular Culture - General; Political Science / International Relations; SPORTS_SOCIAL ASPECTS; Cross-cultural studies; Nationalism and sports; Sociological aspects
First sentence: That the representatives of cultures communicate, compete, emulate and/or distinguish themselves from others across a range of global networks has seemingly become so much part of the lives of late twentieth-century Westerners that it is viewed as 'second nature' and treated in an unproblematic way.