Instant Acceleration: Living in the Fast Lane: The Cultural Identity of Speed
This book is about the relationship between blackness, ethnicity, and speed. It is an in-depth ethnographic and anthropological study of a population of collegiate sprinters, constructed upon a formal model of ethnic and cultural identity which sees social interaction, expressed in the order and arrangement of social identities, as a means of establishing social networks through universal or cognitive rules. This study also introduces a unique method of intensive participant-observation; to really study a population, one must actively participate, placing the researcher in the social identity of those being studied.Contents: List of Photographs; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Faces; The Ethnographic Pursuit of Speed; Cognition and Identity; Fall 1987; Winter 1988; Spring 1988; Summer 1988; The Eternal Season; Index.
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Instant Acceleration: Living in the Fast Lane: The Cultural Identity of Speed
This book is about the relationship between blackness, ethnicity, and speed. It is an in-depth ethnographic and anthropological study of a population of collegiate sprinters, constructed upon a formal model of ethnic and cultural identity which sees social interaction, expressed in the order and arrangement of social identities, as a means of establishing social networks through universal or cognitive rules. This study also introduces a unique method of intensive participant-observation; to really study a population, one must actively participate, placing the researcher in the social identity of those being studied.Contents: List of Photographs; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Faces; The Ethnographic Pursuit of Speed; Cognition and Identity; Fall 1987; Winter 1988; Spring 1988; Summer 1988; The Eternal Season; Index.
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ISBN-13: | 9780819195845 |
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Publisher: | University Press of America |
Publication date: | 12/06/1994 |
Pages: | 150 |
Product dimensions: | 6.28(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.58(d) |
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