TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dyck,Noel
TI  - Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children's Sports 
T2  - Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom
SN  - 9781442686588
AV  - GV709.2 .D93 2012eb
U1  - 796.0830971 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Community life
KW  - Canada
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Sports for children - Social aspects - Canada
KW  - Sports for children
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Coursebook
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Thousands of children participate in community sports every year, enjoying recreation time with their peers, getting healthy exercise, and learning a variety of personal and group skills. At the same time, children's sports are not without controversy: parents can be overly invested in their children's exploits, competitive success is often the focus, and rising costs can limit participation. Consider, too, that these activities, billed as being for the kids, are often overlaid with other agendas by the adults who volunteer, work, and generally support children's sports. Noel Dyck incorporates nearly two decades of ethnographic field research into this anthropologically informed account that illustrates how all those involved in children's sports-boys and girls, parents, coaches, and sport officials-shape these complex, vibrant fields of play. In the process, he explores larger questions and debates about contemporary family and community and the shaping of childhood, youth, and adulthood. Bridging anthropology, sport studies, and childhood studies, Fields of Play offers a rich understanding of an area that has, to date, gained relatively little attention by social scientists
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ER  -