Ethnography of Football and Masculinities in Jamaica

William Tantam is Postdoctoral Fellow in Caribbean Studies at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London, UK.

• Introduction Player Profile: Cavin 1. The Jamaican Football Context: From the Plantation to Schoolboy Football Player Profile: Freddy 2. Shifting Boundaries: The Rules of the FieldPlayer Profile: Mr Bennett 3. The Pass: Older Players and Embodying Middle Class Etiquette Player Profile: Peter 4. The Salad: Younger Players and the Trick as a Tactic of ResistancePlayer Profile: Doc 5. Watching Football: Locating Jamaica within the World of Football Player Profile: Terry Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

"This is an original, smart and rich ethnographic text that fills a gap in the anthropological literature around football and masculinities in the Caribbean, and refreshes many intellectual debates around men and masculinities in the 21st century. Using the example of ‘Black River’, this ethnography powerfully illustrates how the football space in the Caribbean is a major socio-cultural location of male socialisation, and looks at the myriad and complex ways in which such a process unfolds. - Dylan Kerrigan, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and TobagoInspired by Bourdieu and Wacquant's embodied reflexive sociology, and presented in the tradition of C. L. R. James's intimate portraits of sport, race and coloniality, William Tantam deftly weaves together the lives of his interlocutors–and fellow football players–with themes of age, status, class, resistance and globalisation. He makes a fine contribution to the literatures on gender, sport and the Caribbean. - Jon P. Mitchell, University of Sussex, UK"