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Sport and identity in France : practices, locations, representations

Title
Sport and identity in France : practices, locations, representations / Philip Dine.
Author
Dine, Philip.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, ©2012.

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Description
vi, 375 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Cultural identity studies ; vol. 14
Uniform Title
Cultural identity studies ; v. 14.
Subject
  • Sports > Social aspects > France
  • Sports and state > France
  • Manners and customs
  • Sports and state
  • Sports > Social aspects
  • Sport
  • Soziale Funktion
  • Sociologie du sport
  • Identité collective
  • Sociologie
  • Sports
  • identité
  • France > Social life and customs
  • France
  • Frankreich
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-366) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Practices -- ch. 1 From Gladiateur to Ourasi: France's equine sporting champions -- ch. 2 Olympic Games: The French invention -- and manipulation -- of an international sporting showcase -- ch. 3 From the Great Loop to the Hell of the North: Cycle road racing, work and suffering -- pt. 2 Locations -- ch. 4 Tennis from le jeu de paume to Roland(-)Garros -- ch. 5 Marianne rules the waves: Ocean racing from Alain Gerbault to Florence Arthaud -- ch. 6 Looking for liberty -- and finding France -- in the desert, the mountains and the city -- pt. 3 Representations -- ch. 7 Combat sports: Masculinity, ethnicity and memory -- ch. 8 French rugby: From provincial nostalgia to pragmatic cosmopolitanism -- ch. 9 Competing identities in French football: Locality, ethnicity, fidelity.
ISBN
  • 9783039118984
  • 3039118986
LCCN
2011034841
OCLC
  • ocn751248787
  • 751248787
  • SCSB-1631767
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library