Embodied nation
sport, masculinity, and the making of modern Laos
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Word Count
81,750 words, Guess
Page Count
327 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100824838890
- ISBN-139780824838898
- ISBN-139780824875121
- ISBN-100824875125
- Library of Congress Control Number2014013985
and 4 more
- OCLC Control Number882463663
- Better World Books9780824838898
- Better World Books9780824875121
- Open LibraryOL26941469M
Classifications
- DDC959.404
- LCCDS555.7 .C74 2015
- LCCGV303.L28C74 2015
and 1 more
- LCCDS555.7.C74 2017
Description
This book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the country's extraordinary transitions-from French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development state-through the lens of physical culture, Simon Creak's lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people. Creak argues that sport and related physical practices-including physical education, gymnastics, and military training have shaped a national consciousness by locating it in everyday experience. These practices are popular, participatory, performative, and, above all, physical in character and embody ideas and ideologies in a symbolic and experiential way.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Southeast Asia, politics, meaning, and memory
- Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory
Other Editions
- Embodied nation
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