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- catalog abstract ""Part One of this book provides a basic understanding of sport as symbol. Part Two gives attention to animals as adversaries and traces the origins of sporting art back to the hunt. Part Three considers humans competing against humans in combat sports, ball games, stick-and-ball games, and racquet sports, as well as in warfare. Part Four concentrates on contesting with oneself in races and sports of grace and beauty such as gymnastics, figure skating and ice dancing. The book concludes with a discussion of the athlete's relationships to society." --Book jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13068870.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Part One of this book provides a basic understanding of sport as symbol. Part Two gives attention to animals as adversaries and traces the origins of sporting art back to the hunt. Part Three considers humans competing against humans in combat sports, ball games, stick-and-ball games, and racquet sports, as well as in warfare. Part Four concentrates on contesting with oneself in races and sports of grace and beauty such as gymnastics, figure skating and ice dancing. The book concludes with a discussion of the athlete's relationships to society." --Book jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-237) and index.".
- catalog description "Sport as symbol -- Heroic dramas and athletic actors -- Adversary in nature -- Hunt: power of life and death -- Hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight -- Human adversary -- Combat sports: the socialization of conflict -- War games -- Adversary within -- Transcending time and space -- Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth -- Symbolic actors and social dramas -- High priests and super stars.".
- catalog extent "vii, 243 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sport as symbol.".
- catalog identifier "0786415797 (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sport as symbol.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.,".
- catalog relation "Sport as symbol.".
- catalog subject "704.9/49796 21".
- catalog subject "NX650.S83 W66 2003".
- catalog subject "Sports in art.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sport as symbol -- Heroic dramas and athletic actors -- Adversary in nature -- Hunt: power of life and death -- Hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight -- Human adversary -- Combat sports: the socialization of conflict -- War games -- Adversary within -- Transcending time and space -- Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth -- Symbolic actors and social dramas -- High priests and super stars.".
- catalog title "Sport as symbol : images of the athlete in art, literature and song / Mari Womack.".
- catalog type "text".