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| العنوان: |
Chapter 6: Making persons in a global ritual? |
| المؤلفون: |
Rudie, Ingrid, Hughes-Freeland, Felicia, Crain, Mary M. |
| المصدر: |
Recasting Ritual; 1998, p115-136, 22p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
SPORTS, RITUALIZATION, RITUAL, GENDER, CROSS-country skiing |
| مستخلص: |
This chapter attempts to analyze the element of ritualization in Olympic sport. The athlete is a key symbol, and the author makes a historical comparison of female athletes in international cross-country skiing and figure skating competitions to analyses two issues: the relation between sport and changing societal discourses regarding gender; and the degree to which meanings can be shared across cultures. In this chapter, core questions will be how far symbols of the person as communicated in the arena and in the media can be shared and extended, and indeed, whether there is such a thing as a global ritual. The issue of gender is of central concern of the author's analysis. The author argues that sport exhibits in a distilled manner a split message about gender equality and inequality. In everyday experience this split tends to be blurred by the complexity of practices and discourses in modern society. In sport it stands out clearly because an ongoing struggle for gender equality coexists with a strict set of rules designed to keep biologically defined male and female categories apart and pure. The author's focus is on various negotiations--in a wide sense of the term--about the gender issue in different disciplines, and the symbolic repercussions of particular athletes and particular events. |
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