Football: A Sociology of the Global Game By Richard Giulianotti. Published 1999 by Polity Press, 65 Bridge Street,Cambridge, CB2 1UR,UK. (256 pp., $29.95) |
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| Authors: | Carwyn Jones |
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| Institution: | Department of Sport Studies , University of Teesside , Middlesbrough , TSI 3BA , UK E-mail: C.R.Jones@tees.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | Martial-arts practice is not quite anything else: it is like sport, but is not sport; it constantly refers to and as it were cohabits with violence, but is not violent; it is dance-like but not dance. It shares a common athleticism with sports and dance, yet stands apart from both, especially through its paradoxical commitment to the external value of being an instrument of violence. My discussion seeks to illuminate martial arts practice by systematic contrast to games of sport and works of performance art, especially dance. |
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| Keywords: | Martial Arts sport dance aesthetics |
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