This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern
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English Pages 352 Year 2014
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Language Conventions
Map
Introduction
1. Making a Modern Tradition
2. Renovating the Body, Restoring the Nation/Race
3. Embodying Military Masculinity
4. Sport and the Theatrics of Power
5. Representing Meuang Lao in Southeast Asia
6. Socialist Cultures of Rhetoric and Physicality
7. Mobilizing the Revolution
8. Vientiane Games, 2009
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Other Volumes in the Series