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The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
Thomas F. Carter
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| #1078402 in Books | 2008-11-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.80 x.70 x6.10l,.88 | File type: PDF | 256 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| A must-read for the anthropology of Cuba and of sport|By Customer|The Quality of Home Runs is the first book-length ethnographic study of contemporary Cuban baseball, and as such represents an out-of-the-park step forward for the study of sport in Cuba and its diaspora. How has baseball fared in a socialist system? What can we learn about post-coloniality, about the performa||
“The Quality of Home Runs offers engaging and provocative perspectives on socialism, nationalism, masculinity, and the embodiment and poetics of sport in Cuba, all seen from the vantage point of the stadium stands and the streets of Havana. T
In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality of Home Runs is Carter’s lively ethnographic exploration of the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity. Suggesting that baseball is in m...
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