Native Americans and Sport in North America: Other People's Games Contributor(s): King, C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415366771 ISBN-13: 9780415366779 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports |
Dewey: 796.089 |
Series: Sport in the Global Society |
Physical Information: 220 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Taking examples from the United States and Canada, this comprehensive text offers compassionate and critical accounts of the Native American sporting experience. It challenges popular images of indigenous athletes and athletics; it explores Native American participation in and appropriation of EuroAmerican sports; and it unpacks social categories, particularly gender, race and heritage and their implications for understanding Native Americans and sport in North America. Contributors discuss the interplay of power and possibility, difference and identity, representation and remembrance that have shaped the means and meanings of American Indians playing sport. Included in this book are discussions on:
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