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9780415390729

America's Game(s): A Critical Anthropology of Sport

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415390729

  • ISBN10:

    0415390729

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-01-29
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This insightful volume considers how to locate America in the sporting world: in the traditions and rituals of a national pastime or in the baseball academies run by American professional teams in the Dominican Republic? With the athletes that carry a flag in Olympic ceremonies or among the executives in the boardrooms of Nike? The contributors argue that 'America' is located in these familiar sites and practices but also and increasingly in these novel contexts, where the bodies, strategies, and aspirations of others are becoming subject to American ludic, agonistic, and moral orders. Collectively, their contention is that American sports as a category needs to be reconsidered, to take into account the extensive networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving out from American athletic institutions as well as the ever increasing influx of talent coming from abroad that sustains American collegiate and professional athletics. As America strives to balance cosmopolitan objectives withresurgent nationalism, it is critical to consider 'American sports' from within and without. This book will be of great interest to scholars of culture, politics, and sport.

Table of Contents

Prologue: the Paradoxes of American Games from Within and Without
Why Baseball, Why Cricket? Differing Nationalisms, Differing Challenges
Let the Games Begin: Sport, U.S. Race Relations and Cold War Politics
Capturing Racism: An Analysis of Racial projects within the Lisa Simpson vs. University of Colorado Football Rape Case
The Opposite of Losses: Where Lies the Soul of American Sports?
Making the World Safe for Baseball: Reflections on Internationalism in Cooperstown and World Baseball Classic
Prototype: In search of the Perfect Senagalese Basketball Physique
Baseball in the Breach: Notes on Defection, Disaffection and Transition in Contemporary Cuba
Latinizing the 'National Pastime'
Epilogue: It was all a dream wasn't it?
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