Author : CRICKETER
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1845
Category :
ISBN :
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1931
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher :
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN :
Author : Miles's Boy (pseud)
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 1845
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Joseph S. Alter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1992-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520912175
The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline.
Author : Henry Downes Miles
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Boxing
ISBN :
Author : John Nauright
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 21,16 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1557286493
A collection of essays that analyze the interconnections between race, ethnicity, and sport.
Author : Grant Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 32,39 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134401639
This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an international perspective, Sport, Culture and Society provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport, and includes: a clear and comprehensive structure unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport coverage of core topics and emerging areas extensive original research and new case study material. The book offers a full range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, and guides to further reading. Sport, Culture and Society represents both an important course resource for students of sport and also sets a new agenda for the social scientific study of sport.
Author : Kate Fox
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1857889177
Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.
Author : Martin Jacques
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1101151455
Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese power Soon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western. Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years since the first edition was published, When China Rules the World has proved to be a remarkably prescient book, transforming the nature of the debate on China. Now, in this greatly expanded and fully updated edition, boasting nearly 300 pages of new material, and backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China’s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, changing the world as we know it. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and is the subject of an immensely popular TED talk.
