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Ethnosport: The End of Decline Volume 29
The study known as 'Ethnosport' describes the cultural diversity, identity, and folk traditions in sports, with special reference to Eastern cultures. A rich world - of games, competitions, rituals, and festivities - opens when examining Russia as well as the minority peoples' cultures of Siberia, Central Asia, and East Asia. This book encourages research in similar, living, folk-sport traditions in further regions of the world. It contributes to the understanding of bodily democracy as people's self-determination in bodily practice. (Series: Sport: Culture, Change / Sport: Kultur, Veränderung - Vol. 29) [Subject: Sports, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies]
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Ethnosport: The End of Decline Volume 29
The study known as 'Ethnosport' describes the cultural diversity, identity, and folk traditions in sports, with special reference to Eastern cultures. A rich world - of games, competitions, rituals, and festivities - opens when examining Russia as well as the minority peoples' cultures of Siberia, Central Asia, and East Asia. This book encourages research in similar, living, folk-sport traditions in further regions of the world. It contributes to the understanding of bodily democracy as people's self-determination in bodily practice. (Series: Sport: Culture, Change / Sport: Kultur, Veränderung - Vol. 29) [Subject: Sports, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies]
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Ethnosport: The End of Decline Volume 29

Ethnosport: The End of Decline Volume 29

by Alexey Kylasov
Ethnosport: The End of Decline Volume 29

Ethnosport: The End of Decline Volume 29

by Alexey Kylasov

Overview

The study known as 'Ethnosport' describes the cultural diversity, identity, and folk traditions in sports, with special reference to Eastern cultures. A rich world - of games, competitions, rituals, and festivities - opens when examining Russia as well as the minority peoples' cultures of Siberia, Central Asia, and East Asia. This book encourages research in similar, living, folk-sport traditions in further regions of the world. It contributes to the understanding of bodily democracy as people's self-determination in bodily practice. (Series: Sport: Culture, Change / Sport: Kultur, Veränderung - Vol. 29) [Subject: Sports, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Asian Studies]

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783643906540
Publisher: Lit Verlag
Publication date: 11/09/2015
Series: Sport: Culture, Change / Sport: Kultur, Veranderung , #29
Pages: 132
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

Table of Contents

Annotation 2

Gratitude 4

To readers 6

Introduction 7

Ethnosport: cultural diversity

Changes in the structure of the modern sport 15

Traditional styles of phisical activity 27

Traditional games 38

The cultural genesis of sports

Classification 53

The East 56

The West 65

The North 73

The ethnosport philosophy

The methodology of ethnosport 81

Post-sport as the ethnosport anthithesis 100

Overcoming the crises of modern sport 110

Conclusion 117

Glossary 118

References 119

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