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Fields of Play : An Ethnography of Children's Sports / Noel Dyck.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dyck, Noel, Author.
- Series:
- Teaching culture.
- Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports for children--Social aspects--Canada.
- Sports for children.
- Community life--Canada.
- Community life.
- Ethnology--Canada.
- Ethnology.
- Canada.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, garnered relatively little attention by social scientists.
- Contents:
- Encountering the fields of play
- "What kids really need": the systematizing of sport in Canada
- Becoming sport parents
- Organizing and coaching community sports
- Becoming athletes and players
- Pulling together and apart in community sports
- Sporting dreams
- How the game is played.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-0417-4
- 1-4426-8658-8
- OCLC:
- 865475149
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