Results for tag: Sports

Excerpt — More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan

02/08/2021 by Asia Now Books, East Asia, History, Japan, Sports

AAS Member Dennis Frost is Wen Chao Chen Associate Professor of East Asian Social Sciences in Kalamazoo College’s Department of History and East Asian Studies. Frost is also author of More Than Medals: A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan (Cornell University Press, 2021). In this book, Frost narrates the development […]

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Fieldwork in the Outfield: William W. Kelly on The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers

10/04/2019 by Maura Elizabeth Cunningham Books, Anthropology, Baseball, Japan, Northeast Asia, Sports

Baseball tickets as a research expense? Nice try. It’s no surprise that a funding agency expressed skepticism when anthropologist William W. Kelly included a $900 “purchase of baseball game tickets” line item on his proposed grant budget. Kelly, however, had a legitimate reason for requesting the support: he was conducting an ethnographic study of Osaka’s […]

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