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The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'recreation'

The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'recreation'

Kohn, Tamara
Coleman, Simon

Hardcover

Series: Social Identities, Book 4

AnthropologyTravel GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845453727
ISBN13: 9781845453725
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.

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