Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:54:58 -0500 (EST)
From: David Butz <dbmarley-AT-spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
Subject: Re: Poco and Sport



John,

Here are a few references to works I think develop a "postcolonial" take
on mountain climbing. No claim to comprehensiveness. I'm sure others can
add to the list.

David.


Adams, Vincanne. 1997. Dreams of a final Sherpa. American Anthropologist
99, no. 1: 85-98.

Adams, Vincanne. 1996. Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas.
Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Galwan, Ghulam Rassul, Aksakal of Leh. 1923.  Servant of Sahibs: A Book to
be Read Aloud. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons.

MacDonald, Kenneth I. 1998. Push and shove: spatial history and the
construction of a portering economy in northern Pakistan. Comparative
Studies in Society and History 40, no. 2: 287-317.

Ortner, Sherry B. 1996. Borderland politics and erotics: gender and
sexuality in Himalayan mountaineering. in Making Gender. , 181-212.
Boston: Beacon.

Ortner, Sherry B. 1997. Thick resistance: death and the cultural
construction of agency in Himalayan mountaineering. Representations, no.
59: 135-62.

Robbins, David. 1987. Sport, hegemony and the middle class: the Victorian
mountaineers. Theory, Culture and Society 4: 579-601.

Slemon, Stephen. 1998. Climbing Mount Everest. Canadian Literature, no.
158: 15-35.



On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, John Bale wrote:

> David
> Many thanks; I know the cricket references reasonably well but the stuff on
> climbing (arguably THE colonial/imperial sport - Richard Burton, on climbing
> the highest mountain in Cameroon said 'To be first in such things is
> everything; to be scond is nothing'! - would be very welcome.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> John
> 
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> From: David Butz <dbmarley-AT-spartan.ac.brocku.ca>
> To: <postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
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> Subject: Re: Poco and Sport
> 
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > There's a small but growing literature on mountain climbing. I can send
> > you some references if you are interested.
> >
> > In terms of cricket, don't forget Appadurai's chapter "The decolonization
> > of Indian cricket" in *Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of
> > Globalization*
> >
> > David.
> >
> >
> >
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