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The Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement
A Biocultural Perspective
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2010
Summary
The evolution of the human species has always been closely tied to the relationship between biology and culture, and the human condition is rooted in this fascinating intersection. Sport, games, and competition serve as a nexus for humanity's innate fixation on movement and social activity, and these activities have served throughout history to encourage the proliferation of human culture for any number of exclusive or inclusive motivations: money, fame, health, spirituality, or social and cultural solidarity.
The study of anthropology, as presented in Anthropology of Sport and Human Movement, provides a scope that offers a critical and discerning perspective on the complex calculus involving human biological and cultural variation that produces human movement and performance. Each chapter of this compelling collection resonates with the theme of a tightly woven relationship of biology and culture, of evolutionary implications and contemporary biological and cultural expression.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2939-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4941-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
354
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1. Anthropology Revisits Sport through Human Movement No access
Chapter 2. Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man No access
Chapter 3. From Landscapes to Playscapes: The Evolution of Play in Humans and Other Animals No access
Chapter 4. Endurance Predator No access
Chapter 5. Thermoregulation and Hydrating Strategies in Human Evolution No access
Chapter 6. Homo cursor: Running into the Pleistocene No access
Chapter 7. Traditional and Modern Running Culture among the Kalenjin of Kenya: A Historical and Anthropological Perspective No access
Chapter 8. Black Like Me: The Shared Origins of Humanity and Why We Are Different No access
Chapter 9. “White” Men Can’t Run: Where is the Scientific Evidence? No access
Chapter 10. The Paleolithic Athlete: The Original Cross Trainer No access
Chapter 11. When Pain = Strain = No Gain: The “Physiology of Strain” and Exercise Intensity, c. 1850–1920 No access
Chapter 12. Throwing like a Brazilian: On Ineptness and a Skill-Shaped Body No access
Chapter 13. The DREAM Gene for the Posthuman Athlete: Reducing Exercise-Induced Pain Sensations Using Gene Transfer No access
Index No access Pages 343 - 346
Contributors No access Pages 347 - 354
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