Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina (Global Issues Series) download epub
by Eduardo P. Archetti
212 p. bibliography, index. While not a British colony, Argentina was dominated economically by the British at the time, and instead of positing an alternative, they decided to beat the British at their own game (which they succeeded in doing as early as the 1920s). Steps to an ecology of transnational sports. Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
Archetti's book is a really interesting discussion of the role that soccer, polo, and the tango play in Argentinian masculine culture
The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been. Archetti's book is a really interesting discussion of the role that soccer, polo, and the tango play in Argentinian masculine culture. Relying on the notion of cultural "hybridity" (more commonly used in the humanities than in the social sciences), Archetti discusses the ways in which Argentinian national identity is a hybrid identity forged, in part, through sport, dance, and gender.
Home Browse Books Book details, Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango i. .Masculinities: Football, Polo, and the Tango in Argentina. By Eduardo P. Archetti. Parts of chapters 2, 5, 6 and 7 have been published earlier (see Archetti 1994, 1996, 1997a,b).
Masculinities : Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. Eduardo P. Archetti Professor of Social Anthropology,University of Oslo show more. By (author) Eduardo P. book represents a major contribution, not only to anthropology, but to the study of gender, nationalism and culture in its broadest sense. Format Paperback 232 pages.
In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex (football and polo) and cross-sex (tango) relations
In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex (football and polo) and cross-sex (tango) relations. Because of its rich history, Argentina provides the ideal setting in which to study the intersection of masculine and national constructs: hybridization, creolization and a culture of performance have all informed both gender and national identities.
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In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex (football and polo) and cross-sex (tango) relations.
Eduardo P. Archetti : Masculinities. Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. Oxford et New York, Berg, 1999, 212 . bibliogr. Gabriela Vargas-Cetina. Published: 1 January 2002. by Consortium Erudit. in Anthropologie et Sociétés. Anthropologie et Sociétés, Volume 26, pp 288-289; doi:10.
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ISBN: 1859732666
Category: Politics & Social Sciences
Subcategory: Social Sciences
Language: English
Publisher: Berg Publishers; 1st edition (March 1, 1999)
Pages: 232 pages
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