Sporting Cultures

<p>The essays that comprise this book mark new territory in the study of sport in the Hispanic world a key site of cultural experience for the populations of Latin America the United States and the Iberian Peninsula. The scope of the volume is the exploration of the representation and interaction of sport / text / body in a variety of cultural forms in Latin America Spain and the chicano population of the USA. As such it opens a path for further study of an area that is experiencing significant growth in the international academic community. The book consists of 11 chapters by different authors and an introduction totalling c.85000 words. The essays deal with the key sporting practices of the Hispanic world including boxing baseball athletics Olympic movements and football approaching them as physical manifestations in their own right and as cultural representations (via media images poetry narrative fiction murals) through the research methodologies of the humanities and social sciences. </p><p>This book was previously published as a special issue of <em>the International Journal of the History of Sport </em></p>