Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean

by Arbena, Joseph L.; LaFrance, David G.

• ISBN13: 9780842028219
• ISBN10: 0842028218
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean is the most comprehensive overview to date of the development of modern sports in Latin America. This new book illustrates how and why sport has become a central part of the political, economic, and social life of the region and the repercussions of its role. This highly readable volume is composed of articles on a wide variety of sports-basketball, baseball, volleyball, cricket, soccer, and equestrian events-in countries and regions throughout Latin America. Broad in scope, this volume explores the definition of modern sport; whether sport is enslaving, liberating, or neutral; if sport reflects or challenges dominant culture; the attributes and drawbacks of professional versus amateur sport; and the difference between sport in capitalist and socialist nations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Joseph L. Arbena
David G. LaFrance
The Catholic Church and the Origins of Soccer in Costa Rica in the Early 1900s	1	(8)
Chester Urbina Gaitan
The Case of Soccer in Early Twentieth-Century Lima	9	(24)
Steve J. Stein
Soccer Madness: Futebol in Brazil	33	(18)
Joseph A. Page
Soccer Conspiracies: Maradona, the CIA, and Popular Critique	51	(24)
Jeffrey Tobin
Three Kings Day in Consuelo: Cricket, Baseball, and the Cocolos in San Pedro de Macoris	75	(14)
Rob Ruck
Labor, the State, and Professional Baseball in Mexico in the 1980s	89	(28)
David G. LaFrance
Charreada: Performance and Interpretation of an Equestrian Folk Tradition in Mexico and the United States	117	(16)
Kathleen M. Sands
Hosting the Summer Olympic Games: Mexico City, 1968	133	(12)
Joseph L. Arbena
Sport in Cuba: Castro's Last Stand	145	(18)
Paula J. Pettavino
Geralyn Pye
The Failure of Caribbean Integration: Lessons from Grassroots Basketball	163	(12)
Jay R. Mandle
Joan D. Mandle
Sport in Nicaragua, 1889-1926	175	(32)
Richard V. McGehee
The History of Peruvian Women's Volleyball	207	(12)
Abelardo Sanchez-Leon
In Search of the Latin American Female Athlete	219	(14)
Joseph L. Arbena
Suggested Readings	233