Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space & Identity by Henning Eichberg

by John Bale and Chris Philo

Book Overview

Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists, historians and geographers. This collection has been extensively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415172322
• ISBN13: 9780415172325
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.6"