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INTRODUCTION: BODIES, BRAINS, AND PHYSICAL

CULTURE

KNES 381: History of Sport, Games and Culture

THE UNIVERSAL NATURE OF THE HISTORY OF PHYSICAL CULTURE

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STADE AT OLYMPIA

ROMAN COLISEUM

MESO -AMERICAN BALL GAME

MEDIEVAL TOURNAMENT

THE UNIVERSAL NATURE OF THE HISTORY OF PHYSICAL CULTURE

T H E U N IVE R S AL N AT U R E OF T H E H IST ORY O F P H Y SIC A L C U LT U R E

• Sport in Contemporary Global Culture

• The world’s two most popular television programs

• Michael Jordan: a global sporting icon

• A global “common language”?

HOW DID SPORT GROW TO BECOME A GLOBAL COMMON LANGUAGE?

HUMAN ORIGINS AND PHYSICAL CULTURE

• Physical features

• Opposable thumbs

• Bipedalism

• Thermo-regulatory capacity

• Stereoscopic, color vision

• Intellectual features

• Language and cognitive skills

• Social features

• Humans as social beings

HUMAN ORIGINS AND PHYSICAL CULTURE

• Hunting/warfare

• Learning survival/martial skills through physical contests

• Religion

• Honoring the Gods through physical contests

• Leisure

• Sport and contest as a form of fun/ entertainment

ANCIENT VS. MODERN SPORT

ANCIENT/PRE-MODERN SPORT

• A) sacred

• B) martial

• C) local

• D) durable

• E) unequal

MODERN SPORT

• A) secularism

• B) equality of opportunity to compete and in the conditions of competition

• C) specialization of roles

• D) rationalization

• E) bureaucratic organization • F) quantification

• G) the quest for records

THE END

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