The new geopolitics of sport in East Asia
In: Sport in the global society / historical perspectives
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In: Sport in the global society / historical perspectives
World Affairs Online
In: SUNY Series in Japan in Transition
In: Asian journal of social science, Band 46, Heft 1-2, S. 211-213
ISSN: 2212-3857
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 118, Heft 3, S. 710-713
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 188-189
ISSN: 1467-9655
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 111, Heft 3, S. 392-393
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: Global networks: a journal of transnational affairs, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 187-201
ISSN: 1471-0374
Abstract
A myriad of organized sports and physical leisure activities took shape in the nineteenth century and spread quickly from the West to the Rest through imperial and mercantile circuits. Among them, the competitive team spectator sports of soccer, cricket, and baseball were perhaps the most consequential in reach and influence, adopted and adapted in what I have called elsewhere 'uncanny mimicry'. The differences in the world histories of the three sports are as significant as their commonalities, and in this article I focus on some of the distinctive features of baseball's development in the USA and its move through the Caribbean and the western Pacific regions. Unlike soccer and cricket (and American football), baseball developed outside elite schools; it was fully commercialized and professionalized early on; it never had antagonisms or rivalries with amateur or school forms of the sport; and it never had very strong ideological associations with a 'character' ethic. On the other hand, it was quickly 'nationalized' as the American pastime, and in that image it was emulated and resisted in the locations in which it took root. The argument is extended through a case study of 'samurai' baseball in Japan and its uncanny mimicry.
In: Pacific affairs, Band 77, Heft 3, S. 579-580
ISSN: 0030-851X
Kelly reviews JAPAN AND ITS OTHERS by John Clammer.
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 101, Heft 4, S. 1120-1121
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 95, Heft 3, S. 740-740
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 95, Heft 2, S. 528-530
ISSN: 1548-1433
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 98, Heft 6, S. 1478-1480
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 395-431
ISSN: 1545-4290