Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos
Embodied Nation: Sport, Masculinity, and the Making of Modern Laos
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体现国家：体育、男子气概和现代老挝的形成
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10.21313/hawaii/9780824838898.001.0001
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2014
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S. Creak
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这本引人注目的原创书籍探讨了体育运动和身体的观念如何塑造了现代老挝的政治和文化。从法国殖民主义到保王主义民族主义，再到革命社会主义，再到现代发展状态，西蒙·克里克通过体育文化的视角，用生动而深刻的叙事，描绘了一个在体育运动中没有名声的国家，甚至在国内也被视为一个快乐但懒惰的国家。克里克认为，体育运动和相关的体育锻炼，包括体育教育、体操和军事训练，通过将其定位于日常经验，塑造了一种民族意识。这些实践是受欢迎的、参与性的、表演性的，最重要的是，具有身体特征，并以象征性和经验的方式体现了思想和意识形态。克里克将文化和思想史与厚重的历史描述相结合，从以前未开发的档案、报纸和杂志、民族志写作、战争摄影和漫画中汲取了大量老挝和法国的创造性资源。老挝不仅仅是一个想象中的社区或地理体，他表明老挝也是一个在工作的人，不仅对东南亚研究和历史做出了实质性的理论贡献，而且对所有现代社会的体育文化、民族主义、男子气概和现代性的研究做出了实质性的理论贡献。
This strikingly original book examines how sport and ideas of physicality have shaped the politics and culture of modern Laos. Viewing the countryAEs extraordinary transitionsufrom French colonialism to royalist nationalism to revolutionary socialism to the modern development stateuthrough the lens of physical culture, Simon CreakAEs lively and incisive narrative illuminates a nation that has no reputation in sport and is typically viewed, even from within, as a country of cheerful but lazy people. Creak argues that sport and related physical practicesuincluding physical education, gymnastics, and military traininguhave shaped a national consciousness by locating it in everyday experience. These practices are popular, participatory, performative, and, above all, physical in character and embody ideas and ideologies in a symbolic and experiential way. Combining cultural and intellectual history with historical thick description, Creak draws on a creative array of Lao and French sources from previously unexplored archives, newspapers, and magazines, and from ethnographic writing, war photography, and cartoons. More than an oimagined communityo or ogeobody,o he shows that Laos was also a obody at work,o making substantive theoretical contributions not only to Southeast Asian studies and history, but to the study of the physical culture, nationalism, masculinity, and modernity in all modern societies.