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Sport and Body Politics in Japan (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society) by Wolfram Manzenreiter is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu and Foucault, it explains the significance of the body as a field of action and a topic of discourse in molding subject and society in modern Japan. More specifically, it provides answers to question
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Wolfram Manzenreiter
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415840408
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Anthropology, Regional Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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