Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event: The Case of the XVII Winter Olympic Games in Norway
Author:   Arne Martin Klausen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:   illustrated edition
ISBN:  

9781571817068


Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 October 1999
Format:   Hardback
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Sports, and in particular the Olympic Games, are enjoying a rapid increase in interest among social scie ntists, who see them as important public events. This volume offers the first analysis of the Winter Olympic Games. '

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Author:   Arne Martin Klausen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Imprint:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:   illustrated edition
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781571817068


ISBN 10:   1571817069
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   14 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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... in the course of their detailed cultural analyses individual contributors reveal a lot of great interest ... [It] covers many important aspects of the cultural politics of the production, performance, content and reception of the event in Norway ... [and] succeeds in demonstrating the usefulness of anthropological approaches in contemporary Olympic research. * Culture, Sport & Society


""... in the course of their detailed cultural analyses individual contributors reveal a lot of great interest ... [It] covers many important aspects of the cultural politics of the production, performance, content and reception of the event in Norway ... [and] succeeds in demonstrating the usefulness of anthropological approaches in contemporary Olympic research.""  · Culture, Sport & Society


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Arne Martin Klausen is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Universityof Oslo. Until his retirement, he was also the governmental representative in the Norwegian National Commission for Unesco.

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