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

by Benjamin Eastman (Editor), Michael Ralph (Editor), Sean Brown (Editor)

Overview

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 arg

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136802621
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/2007
Series:	Sport in the Global Society
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	202
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Benjamin Eastman is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on contemporary Cuban society and politics and in particular the relationships between sports, nationalism, and the transition to post-socialism in Cuba. Sean Brown is a PhD student in sociology at Northeastern University. Michael Ralph is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on contemporary Senegal, in particular the prominence of sport in Senegalese encounters with globalization and neo-liberal reforms.

Table of Contents

1. American Baseball Fans in Havana, Cuba 2. American Football in Europe 3. Basketball in Senegal 4. American Sport, Baseball 5. Olympism and American Sport 6. Baseball in the Dominican Republic 7. Golf in America 8. Sport and the South Asian Diaspora in America 9. Native American Sport 10. American Sports Fanaticism: A View from the Bleachers