Description |
viii, 174 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Series |
Contributions to the study of world history, 0885-9159 ; no. 17
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index. |
Contents |
The new sport history / D. Parkerson -- The record of the ritual : the athletic records of ancient Egypt / W. Decker -- Recordmania in sports in ancient Greece and Rome / D. Ramba -- Sports records in medieval England : an inquiry / J. M. Carter -- The numbers of reason : luck, logic, and art in renaissance conceptions of sport / J. McClelland -- Sports quantification in Tudor and Elizabethan tournaments / J. Ruhl -- Sport in the context of non-European cultural tradition : the example of Hawaii / G. Kruger -- On the limitations of Eichberg's and Mandell's theory of sports and their quantification in view of Chikaraishi / A. Kruger and A. Ito -- Sport as a practice of religion : the record as ritual / O. Korsgaard -- Stronger, funnier, deadlier : track and field on the way to the retual of the record / H. Eichberg -- The ritual of modern sport : a sociobiological approach / A. Kruger -- Rituals, records, responses / A. Guttmann. The new sport history / Donald Parkerson -- The record of the ritual : the athletic records of ancient Egypt / Wolfgang Decker --Recordmania in sports in ancient Greece and Rome / Dietrich Ramba --Sports records in medieval England : an inquiry / John Marshall Carter --The numbers of reason : luck, logic, and art in renaissance conceptions of sport / John McClelland -- Sports quantification in Tudor and Elizabethan tournaments / Joachim Ruhl -- Sport in the context of non-European cultural tradition : the example of Hawaii / Gundolf Kruger -- On the limitations of Eichberg's and Mandell's theory of sports and their quantification in view of Chikaraishi / Arnd Kruger and Akira Ito --Sport as a practice of religion : the record as ritual / Ove Korsgaard --Stronger, funnier, deadlier : track and field on the way to the ritual of the record / Henning Eichberg -- The ritual of modern sport : a sociobiological approach / Arnd Kruger -- Rituals, records, responses / Allen Guttmann. |
Subject |
Guttmann, Allen. From ritual to record.
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Sports -- Social aspects.
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Sports records -- History
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Sports -- History.
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Added Author |
Carter, John Marshall.
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Kruger, Arnd.
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ISBN |
0313256993 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) |
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