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| Titel: |
Prototype: In search of the perfect Senegalese basketball physique |
| Auteur: |
Ralph, Michael |
| Verschenen in: |
The international journal of the history of sport |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 24 (2007) nr. 2 pagina's 238-263 |
| Jaar: |
2007-02 |
| Inhoud: |
In this essay I discuss some aspects of the Senegalese basketball complex: agents, scouts, coaches, and trainers that operate within this domain and who obsess over the physical characteristics they believe will translate into success for the players they seek to recruit. They consider Senegal to be an especially fertile terrain for discovering new talent. These players are allegedly uncorrupted by the greed that characterizes sport in its most financially lucrative locales. And yet, by combining ethnographic detail with an article that appeared in ESPN Magazine, I discern parallels with that well-known modern discourse concerning the 'noble savage,' who this time is imagined as a fitting antidote, not to the rapid advance of modern capitalism but to the high stakes competition that defines neoliberal market mechanisms. Basketball experts abstract from the personal histories of Senegalese players to circulate stereotypes with profound implications for the possibilities these athletes may pursue. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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