Publisher： John Wiley & Sons Inc
E-ISSN： 1548-1425|39|3|491-510
ISSN： 0094-0496
Source： AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Vol.39, Iss.3, 2012-08, pp. : 491-510
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Abstract
ABSTRACTThe mobility of rugby professionals from Tonga to Japan and points beyond poses new questions about the role of the body as a mediator between the subjective and the objective, which anthropologists and other social scientists have generally examined within the confines of specific societies. Increasingly, mobility across different regimes of valuation offers highly skilled bodies both new possibilities for agency and new constraints on agency. The articulation of athletes’ mobility with economic, social, and ideological dynamics provides a window onto the underexplored aspects of the global condition from the ground up.
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