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Understanding sports culture / Tony Schirato.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schirato, Tony.
- Series:
- Understanding Contemporary Culture series
- Understanding contemporary culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Sports.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([vii], 150 p.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles ; London : Sage Publications, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Considering and evaluating the role of sport in our society this text explains why sport is one of the most significant and important cultural forms in contemporary life.
- Contents:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Introduction: Playing Sport; 2 Theories of Play, Games and Sport; 3 Intimations of Sport; 4 The Field of Sport; 5 Global Sport; 6 Sport, the Media and Spectatorship; 7 From Sport to Spectacle; 8 Contemporary Sport; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-145) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611897741
- 9781446239667
- 1446239667
- 9781412907385
- 1412907381
- 9781281897749
- 1281897744
- 9781848607460
- 1848607466
- OCLC:
- 313802711
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