The Discipline of Leisure

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel and place. However, this volume takes some of these issues into a different area of leisure: the spare-time carved out by people as part of their everyday lives - time that is much more intimately juxtaposed with the pressures and influences of work life, and which often involves specific bodily practices associated with hobbies and sports. An important focus of the book is the body as a site of identity formation, experience, and disciplined recreation of the self. Contributors examine the ways rituals, sports, and forms of bodily transformation mediate between contemporary ideologies of freedom, choice and self-control.

Tamara Kohn is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. She has conducted research in Scotland, Nepal, and California. Publications includeExtending the Boundaries of 'Care' (1999, ed. with R. McKechnie),"Becoming an Islander through Action in the Scottish Hebrides" -JRAI 8/1: 143-158 (2002),"The Aikido Body: Expressions of Group Identities and Self-discovery in Martial Arts Training" in Dyck and Archetti (eds)Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities (Berg 2003).

Chapter 1. The Discipline of Leisure: Taking Play Seriously
Simon Coleman andTamara Kohn

PART I: SURVEYING THE SELF

Chapter 2. Bob, Hospital Bodybuilder: The Integrity of the Body, the Transitiveness of Work and Leisure
Nigel Rapport

Chapter 3. Of Metaphors and Muscles: Protestant Play in the Disciplining of the Self
Simon Coleman

PART II: TEMPORALITIES OF LEISURE

Chapter 4. An Adventure Tourist Experience
Maurice J. Kane andHazel Tucker

Chapter 5. Reframing Place, Time and Experience: Leisure and Illusion in Mallorca
Jacqueline Waldren

PART III: ENACTING NATIONALITY

Chapter 6. Animal and Human Bodies in the Landscapes of English Foxhunting
Garry Marvin

Chapter 7. Playing Like Canadians: Improvising Nation and Identity through Sport
Noel Dyck

Chapter 8. A Relaxed State of Affairs?: On Leisure, Tourism, and Cuban Identity
Thomas F. Carter

PART IV: TRANSCENDING THE NATION

Chapter 9. Staged Discipline as Leisure: Notes on Colonial Sociability in Cairo
Petra Kuppinger

Chapter 10. Bowing onto the Mat: Discourses of Change through Martial Arts Practice
Tamara Kohn

Notes on Contributors
Index