Dyck, Noel

Fields of Play

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ISBN 13:
9781442600799
author:
Dyck, Noel
format:
Paperback
publisher:
University of Toronto Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2012
Pages:
224
Dimensions:
152 mm X 229 mm
Genre:
Social Sciences, Anthropology
Condition:
New
Availability:
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£22.76

Description

Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children's Sports explores the complex world of children's sports, where recreation and exercise meet with controversy and adult agendas. Noel Dyck draws on nearly two decades of ethnographic research to examine how all those involved in children's sports - boys and girls, parents, coaches, and officials - shape these vibrant fields of play.

This anthropologically informed account sheds light on the debates surrounding contemporary family and community, and the shaping of childhood, youth, and adulthood. By bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Dyck offers a rich understanding of an area that has gained relatively little attention by social scientists.

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