Author: Wieting Stephen G. Polumbaum Judy
Publisher: Routledge Ltd
ISSN: 1461-0981
Source: Culture, Sport, Society, Vol.4, Iss.2, 2001-0, pp. : 237-254
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Abstract
Societies and individuals depend on some stability in visions of the past construed for purposes of present tasks, and sport is an important technical and metaphorical container for such cultural ballast. Memorializing entails strategic selection, meaning not simply evocation of past events, but also restriction of recall in opportunistic ways as part of adaptation to changing circumstances. Drawing on the several sport accounts that display the distinctiveness of U.S. and Canadian cultures, and also reviewing large portions of recent research on local-global exchanges of labor, capital, and images through sport, a typology of patterns is outlined in this final essay.