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| Review- forcefully and efficaciously opposes cultural models that strongly dichotomize social replica and social recreation.A” * JRAI “an interesting anthropological attempt, or, rather, an impressive empirical contribution to exploring diverse contemporary themes in innovative sports and leisure activities. In numerous ways, their book, which comprises of nine dissimilar and stimulating empirical cases covering a rich ethnographic area, intends to exaggerate and broaden the term “sport” as something more than just rigorously being an action carried out for mental, physical or bodily restitution; it is a internet site of meaning production as well as consumption performed by humans all over the globe. … the book represents an important contribution to the study of leisure.” * Idrottsforum.org
About the AuthorSimon Coleman, Professor of Anthropology at Sussex University, expended 11 years at Durham University as Lecturer and then Reader in Anthropology and Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health. He received his undergrad degree and PhD from Cambridge, and was a Junior Research Fellow in both Churchill College and St John’s College, Cambridge. His books include The Globalisation of Charismatic Christianity (Cambridge UP 2000), Tourism: Between Place and Performance (ed. with Mike Crang, Berghahn 2002) and Pilgrim Voices (ed. with John Elsner, Berghahn 2003).
Tamara Kohn is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She has conducted exploration in Scotland, Nepal, and California. Publications include Extending the Boundaries of Care (1999, ed. with R. McKechnie), Becoming an Islander through Action in the Scottish Hebrides – JRAI 8/1: 143-158 (2002), “The Aikido Body: Expressions of Group Identities and Self-discovery in Martial Arts Training in Dyck and Archetti (eds) Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities (Berg 2003).
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