The Sport of Kings

Kinship, Class and Thoroughbred Breeding in Newmarket
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-80877-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making statements about animals, we reveal something of ourselves. It explains the action that takes place on racecourses, in training yards, on studs and at bloodstock auctions. It analyses the consumption of racing through betting on the racecourse and in betting shops, and it proffers an insightful description of a unique class system: that of the humans and animals involved in the production of British flat racing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cassidy, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Pferdesport, Tiersportarten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Headquarters; 3. Keeping it in the family; 4. At the races; 5. Having a flutter; 6. Going once, going twice …; 7. One of the lads; 8. Doing it for Daddy; 9. Blood will tell; 10. Conclusions; List of references; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Cassidy, Rebecca
Rebecca Cassidy is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.