The Discipline of Leisure
Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation'
Simon Coleman editor Tamara Kohn editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Published:1st Jan '08
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The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.
“…forcefully and effectively opposes cultural models that strongly dichotomize social reproduction and social recreation.” · JRAI
"an interesting anthropological attempt, or, rather, an impressive empirical contribution to exploring diverse contemporary themes in modern sports and leisure activities. In many ways, their book, which comprises nine different and exciting empirical cases covering a rich ethnographic area, intends to expand and broaden the term 'sport' as something more than just purely being an activity carried out for mental, physical or bodily restitution; it is a site of meaning production as well as consumption performed by individuals across the globe. ... the book represents an important contribution to the study of leisure." · Idrottsforum.org
ISBN: 9781845453725
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 408g
210 pages