Sport in Asia and Africa

A Comparative Handbook

Eric A. Wagner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

1989
Greenwood Press (Verlag)
978-0-313-25767-4 (ISBN)

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Why sports? What is their function in society, how are they organized, and why do people participate? This groundbreaking volume is filled with descriptive data relating to these questions and many others, and it does what none has done previously, by bringing together an edited collection of essays that describe and compare sport in twelve Asian and African nations from a social science perspective. Written by an international team of anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, and physical educators, these chapters are not accounts by scholars viewing sport from afar; each writer is either a native of the country or has spent extensive time there teaching and/or conducting research. For ease of comparison, each chapter adheres to a common format, beginning with an historical overview of the development of sport in that country that focuses on indigenous traditional sports, the development of modern sports, and the place of contemporary sports. A description of the way sports are organized follows and includes discussions of the role of schools and government involvement. Next, where data were available, the authors evaluated levels of sports participation, including such variables as age, gender, social class, and urban or rural residence. An account is also presented of the nature of participation and success of the country in international sports competitions. Each chapter closes with an insightful appraisal of the future of sport in that country.

Seven figures and more than 25 tables facilitate comparisons, as does the editor's introductory essay that provides an overview of the following chapters. In the second introductory essay, Ruud Stokvis examines the process of international diffusion of sport, arguing that changes in sport participation patterns in countries over time reflect changes both in the world system and in the class structure of modernizing societies. Sport in Asia and Africa makes its substantial contribution to social science literature by enhancing cross-cultural understanding of sport as a vital social institution, and its voluminous descriptive data will surely be a catalyst in the evolution of further theories about the interrelationship of sport and society. A source of up-to-date sociological data, Wagner's superb reference will be an important resource for libraries, international studies programs, programs dealing with Asia and Africa, and physical education and sociology courses that examine sport in a comparative perspective.

ERIC A. WAGNER was Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio University. Since 1974 his articles have been published in Review of Sport and Leisure, International Review of Sport Sociology, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Sociology and Social Research, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, and Journal of Popular Culture. He contributed the chapter, Sports, in Handbook of Latin American Popular Culture (Greenwood Press, 1985) and Sport in Revolutionary Societies: Cuba and Nicaragua, in Sport and Society in Latin America (Greenwood Press, 1988).

Preface Introduction An Overview of Sport in Asia and Africa The International and National Expansion of Sports Sport in Asia Sport in Yemen Arab Republic Sport in Japan Sport in South Korea: Ssirum, the YMCA, and the Olympic Games Sport in the People's Republic of China Sport in Thailand Physical Education and Sport in the Philippines Sport in Malaysia Sport in Africa Sport in Egypt: Cultural Reflection and Contradiction of a Society Sport in Botswana Sport in Zaire Sport in Nigeria Sport in Kenya Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.1989
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
ISBN-10	0-313-25767-1 / 0313257671
ISBN-13	978-0-313-25767-4 / 9780313257674
Zustand	Neuware