From Ritual to Record

From Ritual to Record
Author: Allen Guttmann
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231133413

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Examines the relationship between sports and society, including the degree to which modern sport expresses the characteristics of modern society, such as secularism, equality, specialization, rationalization, and bureaucracy.


From Ritual to Record
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Allen Guttmann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Examines the relationship between sports and society, including the degree to which modern sport expresses the characteristics of modern society, such as secula
From Ritual to Record
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Allen Guttmann
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-04 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of s
The Hegemony of Heritage
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Deborah L. Stein
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-11 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to l
A Whole New Ball Game
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Allen Guttmann
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Traces the development of modern collegiate and professional sports, explains how they reflect American culture, and looks at the role sports have played in Ame
Ritual Failure
Language: en
Pages: 174
Authors: Vasiliki G. Koutrafouri
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-31 - Publisher: Sidestone Press

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‘Ritual Failure’ is a new concept in archaeology adopted from the discipline of anthropology. Resilient religious systems disappearing, strict believers and