Sport and society in Latin America : diffusion, dependency, and the rise of mass culture

Format:

Book

Responsibility:

edited by Joseph L. Arbena

Language:

English

Published:

New York : Greenwood Press, 1988

Description:

162 p. ; 25 cm

Authors:

Arbena, Joseph <DA0488789X>  

Series:

Contributions to the study of popular culture ; no. 20 <BA00668424>

Table of Contents:

Sport and the study of Latin American society	Joseph L. Arbena
Bicycles, modernization, and Mexico	William H. Beezley
Forging the regional pastime : baseball and class in Yucatán	Gilbert M. Joseph
The case of soccer in early twentieth-century Lima	Steve Stein
Sport in a fractured society : Brazil under military rule	Janet Lever
Sócrates, Corinthians, and questions of democracy and citizenship	Matthew Shirts
Sport in revolutionary societies : Cuba and Nicaragua	Eric A. Wagner
Sport as dramaturgy for society	Robert M. Levine

Sport and the study of Latin American society	Joseph L. Arbena
Bicycles, modernization, and Mexico	William H. Beezley
Forging the regional pastime : baseball and class in Yucatán	Gilbert M. Joseph
The case of soccer in early twentieth-century Lima	Steve Stein
Sport in a fractured society : Brazil under military rule	Janet Lever
Sócrates, Corinthians, and questions of democracy and citizenship	Matthew Shirts

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Catalog.Bib:

BA04995921

ISBN:

9780313247743 [0313247749] (: alk. paper)