Anthropology of Sport

Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has written extensively on gender, sexuality, migration, economic relations, language, and sport. He is editor-in-chief of American Ethnologist. Susan Brownell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She is an expert on sports and Olympic Games in China, Olympic history, and world's fairs. She is the author of Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic. Thomas F. Carter is an anthropologist at the University of Brighton and director of the Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Studies. He has written on Cuban sport, labor migration, governance, sport for development, and the politics of spectacle. His most recent book is In Foreign Fields: The Politics and Experiences of Transnational Sport Migration.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • Sport, Anthropology, and History2 • Sport, Colonialism, and Imperialism3 • Sport, Health, and the Environment4 • Sport, Social Class, Race, and Ethnicity5 • Sport and Sex, Gender, and Sexuality6 • Sport, Cultural Performance, and Mega-events7 • Sport, Nation, and Nationalism8 • Sport in the World SystemEpilogue: Sport for AnthropologyNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

"The three authors of The Anthropology of Sport have written their up-to-date survey of anthropology and sport in the style of an introductory textbook. The trio covers a basic range of topics in eight chapters, each of which could function as the essential reading for a lecture . . . Major thinkers and concepts are introduced in a deliberated, easy-to-understand manner."