1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910131947203321

Autore

Darbon Sébastien

Titolo

Diffusion des sports et impérialisme anglo-saxon : De l'histoire événementielle à l'anthropologie / / Sébastien Darbon ; photo, Michel Birot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2008

[Paris, France] : , : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

2-7351-1350-7

2-7351-1662-X

2-8218-1684-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Disciplina

306.483

Soggetti

Sports - Social aspects

Sports - Social aspects - United States

Sports - Great Britain - Colonies - History

Sports - Social aspects - Great Britain

Great Britain Colonies Social life and customs

United States Territorial expansion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""« Tyndale-Biscoe of Kashmir »""

Sommario/riassunto

Si le système sportif, qui est né en Angleterre au xixe siècle, a constitué une rupture radicale avec les pratiques athlétiques antérieures, sa diffusion aux quatre coins de la planète par l'intermédiaire de l'impérialisme anglo-saxon a fortement contribué à façonner le monde dans lequel nous vivons. Quelle est cette chose dont l'impérialisme anglo-saxon faisait tant de cas ? De quelles valeurs de « civilisation », de quels codes moraux était-elle porteuse ? Quel accueil a-t-elle reçu dans les pays qui subissaient la présence coloniale ? C'est à cet examen essentiel que nous invite le présent ouvrage pour apprécier les raisons des éventuels rejets, des réappropriations plus ou moins radicales, et



plus généralement des engouements extraordinaires auxquels a donné lieu l'apparition du phénomène sportif dans des milieux culturels très différents de celui d'origine. Dans cette perspective, les apports respectifs de l'histoire événementielle et de l'anthropologie sont confrontés et discutés.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910251396303321

Autore

Hudson Martyn

Titolo

Centaurs, Rioting in Thessaly: Memory and the Classical World / Martyn Hudson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brooklyn, NY, : punctum books, 2018

Santa Barbara, CA : , : Punctum Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-947447-41-6

Edizione

[1st edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 98 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s)

Disciplina

292.13

Soggetti

Ancient Greek religion & mythology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Centaurs, rioting at Thessaly -- Never never lands -- Looking for centaurs -- Surveying the labyrinth -- Daedalus and his machines -- Ghosts, reading, and repetition -- Conclusion: Centaurs, human and non-human.

Sommario/riassunto

This book treads new paths through the labyrinths of our human thought. It meanders through the darkness to encounter the monsters at the heart of the maze: Minotaurs, Centaurs, Automata, Makers, Humans. One part of our human thought emerges from classical Ionia and Greek civilisation more generally. We obsessively return to that thought, tread again its pathways, re-enact its stories, repeat its motifs and gestures. We return time and time again to construct and re-construct the beings which were part of its cosmology and mythology – stories enacted from a classical world which is itself at once imaginary and material.  The “Never Never Lands” of the ancient world contain fabulous beasts and humans and landscapes of desire and violence. We



encounter the rioting Centaurs there and never again cease to conjure them up time and time again through our history. The Centaur mythologies display a fascination with animals and what binds and divides human beings from them. The Centaur hints ultimately at the idea of the genesis of civilisation itself.  The Labyrinth, constructed by Daedalus, is itself a prison and a way of thinking about making, designing, and human aspiration. Designed by humans it offers mysteries that would be repeated time and time again – a motif which is replicated through human history. Daedalus himself is an archetype for creation and mastery, the designer of artefacts and machines which would be the beginning of forays into the total domination of nature.  Centaurs, Labyrinths, Automata offer clues to the origins and ultimately the futures of humanity and what might come after it.