| Record Type: |
Language materials, printed
: Monograph/item
|
| Title/Author: |
The anthropology of sport and human movement :/ edited by Robert R. Sands and Linda R. Sands. |
| Reminder of title: |
a biocultural perspective / |
| other author: |
Sands, Robert R. |
| Published: |
Lanham, Md. :Lexington Books, : c2010., |
| Description: |
xi, 353 p. :ill. ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Anthropology revisits sport through human movement / Robert S. Sands -- Impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man / Clifford Geertz -- From landscapes to playscapes : the evolution of play in humans and other animals / Kerrie P. Lewis -- Endurance predator / Bernd Heinrich -- Thermoregulation and hydrating strategies in human evolution / Timothy Noakes -- Homo cursor : running into the Pleistocene / Robert R. Sands -- Traditional and modern running culture among the Kalenjin of Kenya : a historical and anthropological perspective / Dirk Lund Christensen, S2 ren Damkjaer -- Black like me : the shared origins of humanity and why we are different / Jon Entine -- "White" men can't run : where is the scientific evidence? / Yannis P. Pitsiladis ... [et al.] -- The Paleolithic athlete : the original cross trainer / Loren Cordain, Joe Friel -- When pain = strain = no gain : the "physiology of strain" and exercise intensity, c.1850-1920 / Peter G. Mewett -- Throwing like a Brazilian : on ineptness and a skill-shaped body / Greg Downey -- The DREAM gene for the posthuman athlete : reducing exercise-induced pain sensations using gene transfer / Andy Miah. |
| Subject: |
Sports - Anthropological aspects. - |
| ISBN: |
9780739129395 (hbk.) : |