UID:
edocfu_9958062025802883
Format:
1 online resource (179 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-69254-4
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1-134-69255-2
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1-280-32977-7
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0-203-04270-0
Uniform Title:
Selections. 1998
Content:
Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists, historians and geographers. This collection has been extensively edited to highlight Eichberg's most important arguments and themes. Introductory essays from the editors and Susan Brownell provide cle
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: HENNING EICHBERG, SPACE, IDENTITY AND BODY CULTURE; THINKING DANGEROUSLY: THE PERSON AND HIS IDEAS; THE ENCLOSURE OF THE BODY: THE HISTORICAL RELATIVITY OF 'HEALTH', 'NATURE' AND THE ENVIRONMENT OF SPORT; NEW SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SPORT? EXPERIENCES FROM DANISH ALTERNATIVE PLANNING; SPORT IN LIBYA: PHYSICAL CULTURE AS AN INDICATOR OF SOCIETAL CONTRADICTIONS; OLYMPIC SPORT: NEO-COLONIALISM AND ALTERNATIVES; BODY CULTURE AS PARADIGM: THE DANISH SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT
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A REVOLUTION OF BODY CULTURE? TRADITIONAL GAMES ON THE WAY FROM MODERNISATION TO 'POSTMODERNITY'THE SOCIETAL CONSTRUCTION OF TIME AND SPACE AS SOCIOLOGY'S WAY HOME TO PHILOSOPHY: SPORT AS PARADIGM; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-86712-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-17232-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203042700
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