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Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting Modernities book cover

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Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports Contesting Modernities

Edited By Mariann Vaczi, Alan Bairner Copyright 2024
296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional, and folk sports and sporting cultures. It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and diffusion of western sports and have carved out a unique position not only in spite of modernity but also in response to it. Presenting case studies from around the world, including from Europe, Asia, Africa,... Read more

Introduction

Mariann Vaczi and Alan Bairner 

Part I

Rediscovering Heritage: Identity and Ethnopolitics 

1          Oil over Turkey: UNESCO’s Kirkpinar Wrestling in Edirne

            Bridget Krawietz 

2          Xam Sa Coosan, “Know your Heritage”: Senegalese Wrestling and the “Rediscovery” of Ethnicity

Mark Hann 

3          Heritage, Spectacle, Ethnos: The Revival of Traditional Games in Central Asia

            Tom Fabian 

4          From Subalternity to Intangible Heritage and National Symbol: Catalonia’s Castells

            Mariann Vaczi 

Part II

Nationalizing the Traditional 

5          The Construction and Deconstruction of Kabaddi, the National Sport of Bangladesh: A Tale of Its Identity and Decline

            Kazi Mahmudur Rahman and Marufa Akter 

6          A Tale of Two Sumos: Tradition and Sport

            Lee Thompson 

7          Ireland’s Hurling

            Paul Rouse 

8          Finnish Pesäpallo: The Modernization and Indigenization of a Northern European Bat-and-Ball Game

            Henrik Meinander 

Part III

Modernizing the Indigenous: “Redemptions” and Disenchantments 

9          From Segregation to Integration: Changing Gender Roles in the Modernisation of Traditional Folk Sports in China

            Huan Xiong and Xuefei Han 

10        Traditional Chinese Martial Arts: The Naming and Development of Wushu

             Cindy Park and Alan Bairner 

11        Swedish Bandy and its Struggle with Modernity

            Torbjörn Andersson 

12        Playing for the Creator: Understanding the Indigenous Roots of Lacrosse

            Travis Taylor and Alan Bairner 

Part IV

Indigenizing the Modern: In Search of Myth, Ethos, and Symbol 

13        The Symbolism of Indigenous Sport Disciplines: Sámi Sports and their Roots in Reindeer Husbandry

            Eivind Åsrum Skille and Michael Sam 

14        Dragon Boat: A Traditional Asian Sport with a Modern Flair

            Mark Brooke 

15        Beyond the Sweep: The Meanders of Capoeira as a Martial Art and Cultural Expression

            Louis Forline 

16        Between Modern Sport and Ethnic Essence: The Jai Alai of Global Capitalism, and the Pelota of the Basques

            Mariann Vaczi

Biography

Mariann Vaczi is Assistant Professor of Basque Studies and Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA. She is the author of Soccer, Culture and Society in Spain: An Ethnography of Basque Fandom (Routledge, 2015) and Catalonia’s Human Towers: Castells, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle toward the Heights (Indiana University Press, 2023). She is the co-editor of Sport and Secessionism (Routledge, 2020).

Alan Bairner Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK. He is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (Routledge, 2016) and Sport and Secessionism (Routledge, 2020).

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