Sport Across Asia Politics, Cultures, and Identities [Hardcover]

This book is designed to reflect both our current knowledge regarding sport, globalisation and  encounters with several important post-colonial or non-western societies and to draw together scholars from a range of different disciplines. Case studies of cultural encounters in Central, South-East Asia, Asia Minor and the Arabian peninsula capture the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the diffusion and development of sport and body cultures. These case studies bring together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, various area and post-colonial studies.

Introduction: From Asian Sports to Sport in Asia  Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz and Joseph Maguire  1. Anthropological Perspectives on Sport and Culture: Against Sports as the Essence of Western Modernity  Ingrid Kummels  2. Civilising Bodies: Somatic Engineering in China  Denise Gimpel  3. Sport in Japan in the Early 21st Century: An Interpretation  Lee Thompson  4. The Memory of Colonialism and Imagined Unification: Two Distinctive Natures of South Korean Sporting Nationalism in the 21st Century  Jung Woo Lee and Joseph Maguire  5. Representing True Laos in Post-Colonial Southeast Asia: Regional Dynamics in the Globalization of Sport  Simon Creak  6. The Debate on Revival and the Physical Culture Movement in Western India (1900-1950)  Namrata R. Ganneri  7. Martial Arts Iranian Style: Zurkhane Heavy Athletics and Wrestling Contested  Birgit Krawietz  8. The Development of Mountaineering in Republican Turkey  Funda Akcan and Nefise Bulgu  9. The United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain as a Modern Sport HulS(