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Book Synopsis The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.
Trade Review “…forcefully and effectively opposes cultural models that strongly dichotomize social reproduction and social recreation.” · JRAI
"an interesting anthropological attempt, or, rather, an impressive empirical contribution to exploring diverse contemporary themes in modern sports and leisure activities. In many ways, their book, which comprises nine different and exciting empirical cases covering a rich ethnographic area, intends to expand and broaden the term 'sport' as something more than just purely being an activity carried out for mental, physical or bodily restitution; it is a site of meaning production as well as consumption performed by individuals across the globe. ... the book represents an important contribution to the study of leisure." · Idrottsforum.org
Table of Contents Chapter 1. The Discipline of Leisure: Taking Play Seriously
Simon Coleman and Tamara Kohn
PART I: SURVEYING THE SELF
Chapter 2. Bob, Hospital Bodybuilder: The Integrity of the Body, the Transitiveness of ‘Work’ and ‘Leisure’
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 3. Of Metaphors and Muscles: Protestant ‘Play’ in the Disciplining of the Self
Simon Coleman
PART II: TEMPORALITIES OF LEISURE
Chapter 4. An Adventure Tourist Experience
Maurice J. Kane and Hazel Tucker
Chapter 5. Reframing Place, Time and Experience: Leisure and Illusion in Mallorca
Jacqueline Waldren
PART III: ENACTING NATIONALITY
Chapter 6. Animal and Human Bodies in the Landscapes of English Foxhunting
Garry Marvin
Chapter 7. Playing Like Canadians: Improvising Nation and Identity through Sport
Noel Dyck
Chapter 8. A Relaxed State of Affairs?: On Leisure, Tourism, and Cuban Identity
Thomas F. Carter
PART IV: TRANSCENDING THE NATION
Chapter 9. Staged Discipline as Leisure: Notes on Colonial Sociability in Cairo
Petra Kuppinger
Chapter 10. Bowing onto the Mat: Discourses of Change through Martial Arts Practice
Tamara Kohn
Notes on Contributors
Index
