Sport: Pleasure and Violence, Competition and Sociality

Volume 2 , Number 2
June 2014

The Editor’s Note: Sport: Pleasure and Violence, Competition and Sociality

Niko Besnier –

Erika Robb Larkins; Jules Boykoff and Thomas F Carter; Yagmur Nuhrat; Faedah M Totah; and Rebecca Jordan-Young and Katrina Karkazis – Anthropology News.. 53 (6): S1–S41 (2012)
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Sports, Gambling, and Government: America’s First Social Compact?

Warren D. Hill and John E. Clark – American Anthropologist.. 103: 331–345 (2001)
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Games in Culture

John M. Roberts, Malcolm J. Arth, and Robert R. Bush – American Anthropologist.. 61: 597–605 (1959)
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A “Sumo” Tournament at Tule Lake Center

Marvin K. Opler – American Anthropologist.. 47: 134–139 (1945)
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Basketball and the Culture-Change Process: The Rimrock Navajo Case

Kendall Blanchard – Anthropology & Education Quarterly.. 5: 8–13 (1974)
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Book Review: Training the Body for China: Sports in the Moral Order of the People's Republic of China by Susan Brownell

Nancy Nu-Chun Chen – American Ethnologist.. 24: 700–702 (1997)
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State of Play: The Political Ontology of Sport in Amazonian Peru

Harry Walker – American Ethnologist.. 40: 382–398 (2013)
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The Body of One Color: Indian Wrestling, the Indian State, and Utopian Somatics

Joseph S. Alter – Cultural Anthropology.. 8: 49–72 (1993)
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Is the “World Game” an “Ethnic Game” or an “Aussie Game”? Narrating the Nation in Australian Soccer

Loring M. Danforth – American Ethnologist.. 28: 363–387 (2001)
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In the Spirit of the Game? Cricket & Changing Notions of Being British in Northern Ireland

Thomas Carter – Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.. 3: 1–6 (2003)
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Global Cholas: Reworking Tradition and Modernity in Bolivian Lucha Libre

Nell Haynes – The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology.. 18: 432–446 (2013)
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Book Review: Sugarball: The American Game, The Dominican Dream by Alan M. Klein and The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic by Rob Ruck

George Gmelch – American Ethnologist.. 20: 634–635 (1993)
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W. Montague Cobb (1904–1990): Physical Anthropologist, Anatomist, and Activist

Lesley M. Rankin-Hill and Michael L. Blakey – American Anthropologist.. 96: 74–96 (1994)
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Anne Allison, Duke University, Cultural Anthropology
Peter Benson, Washington University, Anthropology of Consciousness
Andrew Canessa, University of Essex, The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
Cynthia Chavez Lamar, School for Advanced Research, Museum Anthropology
Michael Chibnik, University of Iowa, American Anthropologist
Lisa Cliggett, University of Kentucky, Economic Anthropology
Amber Clifford-Napoleone, University of Central Missouri, CSAS Bulletin
John Conley, University of North Carolina, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Susan Falls, Savannah College of Art and Design, North American Dialogue
Sally Campbell Galman, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Paul Garrett, Temple University, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Amy Goldenberg, AAA, Anthropology News
Lynne G. Goldstein, Michigan State University, Archeological Papers of the AAA
Clarence C. Gravlee, University of Florida, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Amy Harper, Central Oregon Community College, Voices
Angelique Haugerud, Rutgers University, American Ethnologist
Alexandra Jaffe, California State University, Long Beach, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Alice B. Kehoe, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, CSAS Bulletin
Conrad P. Kottak, University of Michigan, General Anthropology
Rebecca J. Lester, Washington University, Anthropology of Consciousness
Laura A. Lewis, University of Southampton, Visual Anthropology Review
Edward D. Lowe, Soka University of America, Ethos
Brent Luvaas, Drexel University, Visual Anthropology Review
Sarah Lyon, University of Kentucky, Anthropology of Work Review
George Mentore, University of Virginia, Anthropology and Humanism
David W. McCurdy, General Anthropology
Lloyd J. Miller, Teaching Anthropology: SACC Notes
Stephanie Paladino, University of Georgia and Wake Forest University, Culture, Agriculture, Food and the Environment
Charles Piot, Duke University, Cultural Anthropology
Michael Ralph, New York University, Transforming Anthropology
Patricia C. Rice, General Anthropology
Justin Richland, University of Chicago, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
Suzanne Scheld, California State University Northridge, City & Society
Jennifer A. Shannon, University of Colorado at Boulder and University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Museum Anthropology
Jeanne Simonelli, Wake Forest University, Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment
Rachel Singh, ReD Associates, Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings
Laura A. Validviezo, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Mark Westmoreland, The American University in Cairo, Visual Anthropology Review

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Volume 2 , Number 2 June 2014

Volume 2 , Number 2
June 2014