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Golden and Blue Like My Heart: Masculinity, Youth, and Power Among Soccer Fans in Mexico City
Roger Magazine
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Description for Golden and Blue Like My Heart: Masculinity, Youth, and Power Among Soccer Fans in Mexico City
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JFC; JHBS; WSJA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
For fans of pro soccer in Mexico City, the four most popular teams represent distinct identities that embody such attributes as political power, nationalism, and working-class values. One of these teams, the Pumas, is associated with youthfulness, and its equally youthful fans take pride in the fact that their heroes have not yet been corrupted by corporate or political interests. This ethnographic study examines Puma fans’ understanding of the ideal that the team represents, considers the practices they employ to express and sometimes contradict this ideal, and reveals how soccer fandom in contemporary Mexico has emerged as a nexus of ... Read more
For fans of pro soccer in Mexico City, the four most popular teams represent distinct identities that embody such attributes as political power, nationalism, and working-class values. One of these teams, the Pumas, is associated with youthfulness, and its equally youthful fans take pride in the fact that their heroes have not yet been corrupted by corporate or political interests. This ethnographic study examines Puma fans’ understanding of the ideal that the team represents, considers the practices they employ to express and sometimes contradict this ideal, and reveals how soccer fandom in contemporary Mexico has emerged as a nexus of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816526932
SKU
V9780816526932
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Roger Magazine
Roger Magazine is research professor of social anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City.
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