KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Summit Series, Canadian Identity
9 Dec 2016
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1961 - bill c-131: act to encourage tness and amateur sport. 1988 - calgary winter olympics (opposite, everything proper) Nationalism, canadian identity, hockey in canada, cold war sport. Story of lacrosse/ice hockey in development of canadian identity. Montreal olympics - internal cultural con ict, nationalism issues related to the 76 games. Why study culture and sport: sport as engrained part of humanity, sport as a cultural text, sport as a social technology. Sport as a cultural i/ maker, ii/ divider, iii/ resistor. Technology: purposeful organization of energies not just things (technology is anything we use to help us do something, not just things) (social: religion, politics, education ) Modern restraints on time (historically and today) The idea that sport is generally linked to male tendencies. Sport"s physically = only acceptable for stronger sex (males) capable of handling (white, angelo-saxon, middle/upper class) Women were too fragile to participate in anything as vigorous as sport.
