| Description |
vii, 294 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Cultural politics (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 16
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| Note |
Portions previously appeared as a special issue of Social text, v. 50, spring 1997. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Fielding sport : a preface to politics? / Randy Martin and Toby Miller -- Competing allegories / Toby Miller -- Kung Fu cinema, frugality, and Tanzanian Asian youth culture : Ujamaa and Tanzanian youth in the seventies / May Joseph -- Nation in white : cricket in a postapartheid South Africa / Grant Farred -- Batting against the break : on cricket, nationalism, and the swashbuckling Sri Lankans / Qadri Ismail -- Composite body : hip-hop aerobics and the multicultural nation / Randy Martin -- Aerobics and feminism : self-determination or patriarchal hegemony? / Michael Real -- Building a better body : male bodybuilding, spectacle, and consumption / Jon Stratton -- On Mexican pro wrestling : sport as melodrama / Heather Levi -- Field of soaps : Rupert v. Kerry as masculine melodrama / David Rowe and Jim McKay -- Cultural links : an international political economy of golf course landscapes / Bradley S. Klein -- Talking trash : late capitalism, black (re)productivity, and professional basketball / Gitanjali Maharaj -- Head fake : mentorship and mobility in hoop dreams / Bruce Robbins -- Back-page bylines : newspapers, women, and sport : an interview with Liz Kahn, Mary Jollimore, and Wanda Jamrozik / Amanda Smith -- Sports trademarks and somatic politics : locating the law in a critical cultural studies / Rosemary J. Coombe. |
| Subject |
Sports -- Social aspects.
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Sports -- Anthropological aspects.
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Sports and state.
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Sports -- Economic aspects.
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| Added Author |
Martin, Randy.
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Miller, Toby.
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| Added Title |
Sport cult |
| ISBN |
0816631840 (pbk.) |
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0816631832 (hardcover) |
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