Not A Hazardous Sport

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Henry Holt
ISBN 13 : 9780805009606
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not a Hazardous Sport written by Nigel Barley and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, an anthropologist, describes his experiences in Indonesia, and offers his humorous observations on the human condition.

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Eland Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780601434
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not a Hazardous Sport written by Nigel Barley and published by Eland Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nigel Barley travels to Sulawesi in Indonesia to live among the Torajan people, known for their spectacular buildings and elaborate ancestor cults. At last he is following his own advice to students, to do their anthropological fieldwork 'somewhere where the inhabitants are beautiful, friendly, where you would like the food.' Barley explores the island on horseback and in buses jammed to the gunnels, and meets priests faithful to the old animist rituals. With his customary wit, he takes the reader deep into this complex but adaptable society. Reversing the habitual patterns of anthropology, Barley then invites four Torajan carvers to London to build a traditional rice barn at the Museum of Mankind. The observer becomes the observed. Now, it is Barley's turn to explain the absurdities of an English city to his bemused guests, in a glorious finale to a trilogy of anthropological journeys that began with The Innocent Anthropologist and continued with A Plague of Caterpillars (both published by Eland). A postscript, penned thirty years after these adventures had been concluded, confirms the rich arc of this story-line of role reversals.

Author : Patrick Laviolette
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317137051
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extreme Landscapes of Leisure written by Patrick Laviolette and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable. They are now exemplary, mainstream even: there are a variety of new types, increasing numbers of people are doing them and they are being appropriated and have infiltrated more and more contexts. This book argues that hazardous sports and adventure tourism have become rather paradoxical. As a set of activities where players and holidaymakers are closer to death or danger than they would otherwise be, they are the complete opposite of normal games or vacations. Adventure sports and tours reverse the general definition of a holiday as being an escape from the seriousness of everyday life, as in most cases, they are innately serious, requiring as they do 'life or death' decision-making. Beginning with the rise in colonial explorations and moving on to consider the Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford, this book examines the increasing phenomena of adventure sports such as bungy jumping, cliff jumping or 'tomb-stoning', surfing and parkour within a framework of positive risk. It explores how certain assumptions about knowledge, agency, the body and nature are beginning to coalesce around newly developing spheres of social relations. Additionally, extreme games have become activities that are germane to the dawning of green social thought and so the book also addresses issues that deal with the intimate connections that exist between pleasure and the moral responsibility towards the environment.

Author : George Caplan
Publisher : Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0435465147
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BTEC National Sport written by George Caplan and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matches Edexcel's specification which will apply from September 2007 and includes the core units for the Development, Coaching and Fitness, and Performance and Excellence pathways.

Author : Joyce E. Chaplin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439100063
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Round About the Earth written by Joyce E. Chaplin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation. Round About the Earth is a witty, erudite, and colorful account of the outrageous ambitions that have inspired men and women to circle the entire planet. For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuries of circumnavigation, when few survived the attempt: in 1519, Ferdinand Magellan left Spain with five ships and 270 men, but only one ship and thirty-five men returned, not including Magellan, who died in the Philippines. Starting with these dangerous voyages, Joyce Chaplin takes us on a trip of our own as we travel with Francis Drake, William Dampier, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and James Cook. Eventually sea travel grew much safer and passengers came on board. The most famous was Charles Darwin, but some intrepid women became circumnavigators too—a Lady Brassey, for example. Circumnavigation became a fad, as captured in Jules Verne’s classic novel, Around the World in Eighty Days. Once continental railroads were built, circumnavigators could traverse sea and land. Newspapers sponsored racing contests, and people sought ways to distinguish themselves—by bicycling around the world, for instance, or by sailing solo. Steamships turned round-the-world travel into a luxurious experience, as with the tours of Thomas Cook & Son. Famous authors wrote up their adventures, including Mark Twain and Jack London and Elizabeth Jane Cochrane (better known as Nellie Bly). Finally humans took to the skies to circle the globe in airplanes. Not much later, Sputnik, Gagarin, and Glenn pioneered a new kind of circumnavigation— in orbit. Through it all, the desire to take on the planet has tested the courage and capacity of the bold men and women who took up the challenge. Their exploits show us why we think of the Earth as home. Round About the Earth is itself a thrilling adventure.

Author : Dr Patrick Laviolette
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409488896
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extreme Landscapes of Leisure written by Dr Patrick Laviolette and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, there has been an increased engagement throughout the social sciences with the study of extreme places and practices. Dangerous games and adventure tours have shifted from being marginal, exotic or mad to being more than merely acceptable. They are now exemplary, mainstream even: there are a variety of new types, increasing numbers of people are doing them and they are being appropriated and have infiltrated more and more contexts. This book argues that hazardous sports and adventure tourism have become rather paradoxical. As a set of activities where players and holidaymakers are closer to death or danger than they would otherwise be, they are the complete opposite of normal games or vacations. Adventure sports and tours reverse the general definition of a holiday as being an escape from the seriousness of everyday life, as in most cases, they are innately serious, requiring as they do 'life or death' decision-making. Beginning with the rise in colonial explorations and moving on to consider the Dangerous Sports Club of Oxford, this book examines the increasing phenomena of adventure sports such as bungy jumping, cliff jumping or 'tomb-stoning', surfing and parkour within a framework of positive risk. It explores how certain assumptions about knowledge, agency, the body and nature are beginning to coalesce around newly developing spheres of social relations. Additionally, extreme games have become activities that are germane to the dawning of green social thought and so the book also addresses issues that deal with the intimate connections that exist between pleasure and the moral responsibility towards the environment.

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Total Pages : 524 pages
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Download or read book Aircraft written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1358 pages
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Download or read book Records and Briefs New York State Appellate Division written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nigel Barley
Publisher : Monsoon Books
ISBN 13 : 9814423475
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toraja written by Nigel Barley and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985, Dr. Nigel Barley, senior anthropologist at The British Museum, set off for the relatively unknown Indonesian island of Sulawesi in search of the Toraja, a people whose culture includes headhunting, transvestite priests and the massacre of buffalo. In witty and finely crafted prose, Barley offers fascinating insight into the people of Sulawesi and he recounts the tale of the four Torajan woodcarvers he invites back to London to construct an Indonesian rice barn in The British Museum. Previously published as "Not a Hazardous Sport".

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Total Pages : 1054 pages
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