Sports culture in Latin American history
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION / LAURA PODALSKY; 1. ROBERTO DURÁN, OMAR TORRIJOS, AND THE RISE OF ISTHMIAN MACHISMO / MICHAEL DONOGHUE; 2. FIGHTING ON THE EDGE: CHOLITAS LUCHADORAS IN BOLIVIA'S CHOLO REVOLUTION / KEN LEHMAN; 3. NATURAL ATHLETES: CONSTRUCTING SOUTHERN INDIGENOUS PHYSICA...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Pittsburgh
Univ. Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Pitt Latin American Series
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| Zusammenfassung: | CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION / LAURA PODALSKY; 1. ROBERTO DURÁN, OMAR TORRIJOS, AND THE RISE OF ISTHMIAN MACHISMO / MICHAEL DONOGHUE; 2. FIGHTING ON THE EDGE: CHOLITAS LUCHADORAS IN BOLIVIA'S CHOLO REVOLUTION / KEN LEHMAN; 3. NATURAL ATHLETES: CONSTRUCTING SOUTHERN INDIGENOUS PHYSICALITY IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARGENTINA / CAROLYNE RYAN LARSON; 4. JAPANESE-BRAZILIAN CROQUET IN SÃO PAULO: ETHNIC IDENTITY, CONTESTATION, AND INTEGRATION / JOSHUA HOTAKA ROTH; 5. PEOPLE OF THE BOOK OR PEOPLE OF THE (FOOT)BALL? ON THE PITCH WITH FANS OF ATLANTA IN BUENOS AIRES / RAANAN REIN 6. BUILDING BODIES: CREATING URBAN LANDSCAPES OF ATHLETIC AESTHETICS IN POSTREVOLUTIONARY MEXICO CITY / AGEETH SLUIS7. BOXING IN THE MAKING OF A COLOMBIAN COSTEÑO IDENTITY / DAVID M. K. SHEININ; 8. FROM "MORAL DISEASE" TO "NATIONAL SPORT": RACE, NATION, AND CAPOEIRA IN BRAZIL / KATYA WESOLOWSKI; NOTES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX Perhaps no other activity is more synonymous with passion, identity, bodily ideals, and the power of place than sport. As the essays in this volume show, the function of sport as a historical and cultural marker is particularly relevant in Latin America. From the late nineteenth century to the present, the contributors reveal how sport opens a wide window into local, regional, and national histories. The essays examine the role of sport as a political vehicle, in claims to citizenship, as a source of community and ethnic pride, as a symbol of masculinity or feminism, as allegorical performance |
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| Beschreibung: | X, 236 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780822963370 082296337X |