Seminar on Anthropology and Sport

Saturday 4 December

Programme

10:00 – 11:00              Coffee/Tea

11:00 – 12:45              Welcome and Morning Presentations

John Bale                Professor Ernst Jokl:  Sports anthropologist?

Kris Chapman            Shū, ha, ri (obey, break, separate): Skill acquisition and mastery in the Japanese martial arts

Allen Abramson            Epic as Sport: Reflections on extreme play and social action in contemporary western societies

12:45 – 14:00              lunch break

14:00 – 16:00              Afternoon Presentations

Patrick Laviolette            Free-flowing Through Embodied Seascapes           

            Sine Agergaard            An Anthropology of Danish Sports and Idraet

Robert Lake               [title TBA]

 Malcolm MacLean            Postcolonising Postcolonialism: colonies of settlement, indigenous sport, and the absence of data’

 16:00 – 16:20              Tea/Coffee

 16:20 – 17:00              Discussion and Closing

Dr Richard William Cox,

Last updated: 1st of December 2004