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.
Table of Content
Chapter 1. The Discipline of Leisure: Taking Play Seriously
Simon Coleman and Tamara Kohn
PART I: SURVEYING THE SELF
Chapter 2. Bob, Hospital Bodybuilder: The Integrity of the Body, the Transitiveness of ‘Work’ and ‘Leisure’
Nigel Rapport
Chapter 3. Of Metaphors and Muscles: Protestant ‘Play’ in the Disciplining of the Self
Simon Coleman
PART II: TEMPORALITIES OF LEISURE
Chapter 4. An Adventure Tourist Experience
Maurice J. Kane and Hazel Tucker
Chapter 5. Reframing Place, Time and Experience: Leisure and Illusion in Mallorca
Jacqueline Waldren
PART III: ENACTING NATIONALITY
Chapter 6. Animal and Human Bodies in the Landscapes of English Foxhunting
Garry Marvin
Chapter 7. Playing Like Canadians: Improvising Nation and Identity through Sport
Noel Dyck
Chapter 8. A Relaxed State of Affairs?: On Leisure, Tourism, and Cuban Identity
Thomas F. Carter
PART IV: TRANSCENDING THE NATION
Chapter 9. Staged Discipline as Leisure: Notes on Colonial Sociability in Cairo
Petra Kuppinger
Chapter 10. Bowing onto the Mat: Discourses of Change through Martial Arts Practice
Tamara Kohn
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Tamara Kohn is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She has conducted research in Scotland, Nepal, and California. Publications include Extending the Boundaries of ‘Care’ (1999, ed. with R. Mc Kechnie), ‘Becoming an Islander through Action in the Scottish Hebrides’ – JRAI 8/1: 143-158 (2002), ‘The Aikido Body: Expressions of Group Identities and Self-discovery in Martial Arts Training’ in Dyck and Archetti (eds) Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities (Berg 2003).
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