ResumenEste artículo trata de mostrar, a través de diversos ejemplos, la importancia del deporte en la configuración de los niveles identitarios en los que se han movido los seres humanos desde el siglo XIX. La asociación con el nacionalismo, regímenes totalitarios y dictaduras, no ha desgastado la capacidad de los deportes para vincular a las comunidades. En muchas ocasiones, esa capacidad integradora tiene un importante carácter defensivo, lo que impide considerar las prácticas deportivas como mero reflejo de la modernidad. De ahí la necesidad de buscar la historización de las identidades deportivas, contextualizando y buscando el análisis interdisciplinar para evitar visiones reduccionistas.Palabras clave: Deporte; identidad; modernidad defensiva; nación.
Sport and identity, or how to define ourselves
AbstractThis article tries to show through various examples, the significance of sport in the shaping of human beings' identities since the nineteenth century. The association with nationalism, totalitarian regimes and dictatorships, has not eroded the ability of sport to connect communities. In many cases, this inclusiveness has an important defensive feeling, preventing to consider sports practices as a mere reflection of modernity. Hence the need to historicize sporting identities, contextualizing and seeking interdisciplinary analysis to avoid reductionist views.
Preface and acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Photographs and portraits. 2. Iconography and iconology. 3. The sacred and the supernatural. 4. Power and protest. 5. Material culture through images. 6. Views of society. 7. Stereotypes of others. 8. Visual narratives. 9. From witness to historian. 10. Beyond iconography?. 11. The cultural history of images. References. Selected bibliography. Photographic acknowledgements. Index.
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