Why would anyone do that? : lifestyle sport in the twenty-first century /
Focusing largely on triathlon and "extreme" mountain biking, sociologist Stephen C. Poulson offers a fascinating exploration of the new lifestyle sports, shedding light on why people find them so compelling. Drawing on interviews with competitors, on his own experience as a participant, an...
Main Author: | Poulson, Stephen C., 1966- (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut) |
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Published: |
New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2016]
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Series: | UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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