Game plan : a social history of sport in Alberta / Karen L. Wall.
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TextPublisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: First electronic edition, 2012Description: 1 online resource (553 pages)Content type: - text
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- Sports -- Social aspects -- Alberta -- History
- Sports -- Alberta -- History
- Sports -- Aspect social -- Alberta -- Histoire
- Sports -- Alberta -- Histoire
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Sports
- Sports -- Social aspects
- Alberta
- 306.4/83097123 23
- GV706.5 W24 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sports as cultural identity -- From Indigenous games to cities of champions : a basic chronology -- Fencing the fields : organizing principles and social order -- "The West has made fairly good headway" : core summer team sports -- "Love and hometown glory" : core winter team sports -- Sport and the single athlete : mavericks, knights, and knickerbockers -- "A vain shadow" : fitness, discipline, and social control -- "Red-blooded sports" and "masculine facsimiles" : gender and sexuality -- A "great slaughter on the field" : aggression, risk, and high performance -- "The rain upon our senses" : sport, the mass media, and marketing -- Getting on the map : sport raises the rafters.
Patterns and layers of sport history emerge as almost-forgotten stories of Alberta's marginalized populations surface.
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