Sport and celebration

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Sport und Feste
Autor:Guttmann, Allen
Erschienen in:Stadion
Veröffentlicht:12 (1987), S. 1-7, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:0172-4029
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Erfassungsnummer:PU199109043308
Quelle:BISp

Abstract

No one can doubt that sport is often a means of or an occasion for celebration. The difficulty for observers is that we cannot always be quite sure about what it is that the celebration celebrates. Sport is inherently polysemous. It taken the form of a contest and lends itself to oppositions, but whether a specific sport event symbolizes community or hostility is a matter of interpretation. Four extended examples make this clear: the stickball game of the Indians of the American Southeast; the medieval game of folk-football; modern soccer; and the modern Olympic Games. In all of these examples we see that sport celebrates contradictory values. Verf.-Referat