From Ritual to Record

• Utgivningsdatum: 2004-08-04
• Mått: 152 x 227 x 13 mm
• Vikt: 312 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 224
• Förlag: Columbia University Press
• ISBN: 9780231133418

• Antropologi
• Sportböcker
• Sociologi

Allen Guttmann is professor of American studies at Amherst College. His many books include The Olympics: A History of the Modern Games, Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism (Columbia), and a translation of Peter Kuhnst's Sports: A Cultural History in the Mirror of Art. He lives in Leverett, Massachusetts.

A pioneering work in a field remarkably little touched... For any future writer about the philosophy or the sociology of sport in general, this book will be required reading. -- Julian Symons Times Literary Supplement The chief advantage that Guttmann has over other sports theoreticians is a willingness to employ the techniques of modern rhetoric in creating some order out of the ideological confusion now swirling around his subject. He is a definer, a synthesizer, a causal analyst, as well as an arguer and a counter-arguer. Virginia Quarterly [Guttmann's] lucid, original, stimulating, blessedly jargon-free book does something to lighten our darkness. His pleasant, incisive style reflects a mind uncluttered by prejudice or ideology. -- Brian Glanville London Sunday Times

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