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By Katrin Bromber,Birgit Krawietz,Joseph Maguire
This booklet is designed to mirror either our present wisdom relating to game, globalisation and ‘"encounters" with numerous very important "post-colonial" or non-western societies and to attract jointly students from more than a few various disciplines. Case reports of cultural encounters in primary, South-East Asia, Asia Minor and the Arabian peninsula catch the paradoxical tactics of emulation, resistance and transformation which are at paintings within the diffusion and improvement of "sport" and physique cultures. those case reviews compile insights from anthropology, cultural stories, geography, heritage, legislations, sociology, quite a few sector and post-colonial reviews.
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Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society) by Katrin Bromber,Birgit Krawietz,Joseph Maguire
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