Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities

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Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction 1 Introduction: Embodied Identities: Reshaping Social Life Through Sport and Dance Noel Dyck and Eduardo Archetti Part I: Training Children's Bodies and Selves 2 Bodying Forth a Room for Everyone: Inclusive Recreational Badminton in Copenhagen Sally Anderson 3 Embodying Success: Identity and Performance in Children's Sport Noel Dyck 4 Embodied Play and Gender Identities in Competitive Handball for Children in Norway Harald Beyer Broch Part II: Reshaping Adult Identities 5 Long-distance Football Support and Liminal Identities Among Norwegian Fans Hans Hognestad 6 'Ladies, Just Follow His Lead!': Salsa, Gender and Identity Heike Wieschiolek 7 The Aikido Body: Expressions of Group Identities and Self-Discovery in Martial Arts Training Tamara Kohn 8 The Embodiment of Male Identities: Alliances and Cleavages in Salvadorean Football Henrik Ronsbo Part III: Embodying the National 9 The Irish Body in Motion: Moral Politics, National Identity and Dance Helena Wulff 10 Football, Nation and Identity: German Miracles in the Post-war Era Werner Krauss 11 Playing Football and Dancing Tango: Embodying Argentina in Movement, Style and Identity Eduardo Archetti 12 Michezo: Dance, Sport and Politics in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania Anne Leseth /toc Notes on Contributors Sally Anderson is a Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. She has conducted ethnographic research in Scandinavia for three decades, including initial work on Saami identity and cultural revitalization. Her book, I en klasse for sig (In a Class of Their Own) (2000) examines cognitive and interactional models afforded by the organization of ongoing class groups in Danish grade schools. Her doctoral dissertation, Civilizing Children: Children's sport and civil sociality in Denmark, explores the political and moral organization of children's sport. Eduardo P. Archetti is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has written extensively on society and culture in Argentina and Ecuador. He has also investigated the meaning of sport and dance for national representations and identities. His most recent books are Guinea Pigs. Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador (1997), Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina (1999) and El potrero, la pista y el ring. Las patrias del deporte argentino (2001). He has extensive experience of both playing football and dancing tango. Harald Beyer Broch is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has conducted field research in Indonesia, Canada and Norway and is the author of Growing Up Agreeably: Bonerate Childhood Observed (1990), Woodland Trappers: Hare Indians of Northwestern Canada.(1998), and Jangan Lupa: An Experiment in Cross Cultural Understanding (2002). He competed at the national level in Norway in cross-country skiing as a junior and, as an adult, was an elite middle distance runner (800m) in the 1960s. Noel Dyck is a Professor of Social Anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Canada. The author of several books on relations between Aboriginal peoples and governments, he was drawn to the anthropology of sport through his children's participation and his own subsequent involvement as a coach in youth soccer and track and field. He is the editor of Games, Sports and Cultures (2000) and is currently completing a study of adults and the social construction of children's sports. Hans Hognestad is a social anthropologist and Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education in Oslo. He has written articles on football fan cultures in Nor