Peter G Mewett
Biographic Data
| ID | 93306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter G Mewett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mewett |
| SIGNATURE | MEWETT P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Conspiring to Run: Women, their Bodies and Athletics Training
Women's athletics commenced about 60 years after the start of the men's sport. Women's involvement in athletics was held back by the medical and general views that this was a strenuous sport requiring a level of exertion beyond the biological capabilities of female bodies. Their difficult initiation into athletics occurred under male gaze; they encountered opposition from the public, the medical profession and from the male-controlled athletics o…
Discourses of Deception: Cheating in Professional Running 1
Cheating, it is claimed, is anathema to sport. But is this the case? In this paper it is argued that cheating is integral to modern sport, that the model of sport as ‘fair play’ is simply an ideological guise of amateurism. The paper focuses on the sport of professional running which, since its origins in the eighteenth century, has been a gambling sport. Strategies involving cheating to manipulate wins, or losses, have featured in this sport as …
Fragments of a Composite Identity: Aspects of Australian Nationalism in a Sports Setting1
I argue that it is erroneous to view nations as culturally homogeneous entities. Rather, all nations are riven by multiple divisions. What characterises a nation is that the people constituting it believe that they share a sameness with their co-nationals. So, the idea of cultural homogeneity is a myth that breathes life into nationalism: it is a cohering leitmotiv, a predicate of the 'imagined community' that can be subscribed to in different wa…
A Sporting Chance? The “Dark Horse Strategy” and Winning in Professional Running
Professional running, derived from 19th century pedestrianism, is a gambling sport mostly confined to working men. Runners compete for prize money and, particularly, in the hope that they will win races as “dark horses” which should ensure substantial winnings from the betting ring. This sport involves handicapping athletes to level ability differences between them and, in theory, gives each competitor an equal chance of winning. Competitors conc…
Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village
Foreword. Introduction to the Second Edition. 1. History and the Celt. 2. The Crofting Township. 3. Harris Tweed. 4. The Informal Structure of Leadership, Decision-Making, and Social Order. 6. Kinship, Courtship, and Marriage. 7. Supernaturalism. 8. Creating Culture in Ciall: The Bottle and the Bible. 9. Stories and Silence. A Story of Scotland. Recommended Reading. Bibliography. Index. Biographical Note
Setting and situation in migration from the Isle of Lewis
This paper examines migration from the Isle of Lewis (Scotland). Mitchell's concepts of the social setting and the social situation of migration are employed: first, to demonstrate how the economic conditions of peripherality have created the factors, or social setting, promoting extensive out-migration. Second, to demonstrate how the particular circumstances, or social situations, of individuals result in a wide range of types and patterns of mi…
Peripheral Waywardness in the Development of Scottish Ethnographic Studies
A detailed review of J. Ennew's The Western Isles Today, published by Cambridge University Press, 1980. The reviewer finds it to be a book that flounders on theoretical, methodical and empirical inadequacies
Economic Brokerage and Peripheral Underdevelopment in the Isle of Lewis
Fragments of a Composite Identity: Aspects of Australian Nationalism in a Sports Setting1
I argue that it is erroneous to view nations as culturally homogeneous entities. Rather, all nations are riven by multiple divisions. What characterises a nation is that the people constituting it believe that they share a sameness with their co-nationals. So, the idea of cultural homogeneity is a myth that breathes life into nationalism: it is a cohering leitmotiv, a predicate of the 'imagined community' that can be subscribed to in different wa…
Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village
Foreword. Introduction to the Second Edition. 1. History and the Celt. 2. The Crofting Township. 3. Harris Tweed. 4. The Informal Structure of Leadership, Decision-Making, and Social Order. 6. Kinship, Courtship, and Marriage. 7. Supernaturalism. 8. Creating Culture in Ciall: The Bottle and the Bible. 9. Stories and Silence. A Story of Scotland. Recommended Reading. Bibliography. Index. Biographical Note
A Sporting Chance? The “Dark Horse Strategy” and Winning in Professional Running
Professional running, derived from 19th century pedestrianism, is a gambling sport mostly confined to working men. Runners compete for prize money and, particularly, in the hope that they will win races as “dark horses” which should ensure substantial winnings from the betting ring. This sport involves handicapping athletes to level ability differences between them and, in theory, gives each competitor an equal chance of winning. Competitors conc…
Conspiring to Run: Women, their Bodies and Athletics Training
Women's athletics commenced about 60 years after the start of the men's sport. Women's involvement in athletics was held back by the medical and general views that this was a strenuous sport requiring a level of exertion beyond the biological capabilities of female bodies. Their difficult initiation into athletics occurred under male gaze; they encountered opposition from the public, the medical profession and from the male-controlled athletics o…
Peripheral Waywardness in the Development of Scottish Ethnographic Studies
A detailed review of J. Ennew's The Western Isles Today, published by Cambridge University Press, 1980. The reviewer finds it to be a book that flounders on theoretical, methodical and empirical inadequacies
Economic Brokerage and Peripheral Underdevelopment in the Isle of Lewis
Peripheral Waywardness in the Development of Scottish Ethnographic Studies
A detailed review of J. Ennew's The Western Isles Today, published by Cambridge University Press, 1980. The reviewer finds it to be a book that flounders on theoretical, methodical and empirical inadequacies
Economic Brokerage and Peripheral Underdevelopment in the Isle of Lewis
Setting and situation in migration from the Isle of Lewis
This paper examines migration from the Isle of Lewis (Scotland). Mitchell's concepts of the social setting and the social situation of migration are employed: first, to demonstrate how the economic conditions of peripherality have created the factors, or social setting, promoting extensive out-migration. Second, to demonstrate how the particular circumstances, or social situations, of individuals result in a wide range of types and patterns of mi…
Scottish Crofters: A Historical Ethnography of a Celtic Village
Foreword. Introduction to the Second Edition. 1. History and the Celt. 2. The Crofting Township. 3. Harris Tweed. 4. The Informal Structure of Leadership, Decision-Making, and Social Order. 6. Kinship, Courtship, and Marriage. 7. Supernaturalism. 8. Creating Culture in Ciall: The Bottle and the Bible. 9. Stories and Silence. A Story of Scotland. Recommended Reading. Bibliography. Index. Biographical Note
A Sporting Chance? The “Dark Horse Strategy” and Winning in Professional Running
Professional running, derived from 19th century pedestrianism, is a gambling sport mostly confined to working men. Runners compete for prize money and, particularly, in the hope that they will win races as “dark horses” which should ensure substantial winnings from the betting ring. This sport involves handicapping athletes to level ability differences between them and, in theory, gives each competitor an equal chance of winning. Competitors conc…
Fragments of a Composite Identity: Aspects of Australian Nationalism in a Sports Setting1
I argue that it is erroneous to view nations as culturally homogeneous entities. Rather, all nations are riven by multiple divisions. What characterises a nation is that the people constituting it believe that they share a sameness with their co-nationals. So, the idea of cultural homogeneity is a myth that breathes life into nationalism: it is a cohering leitmotiv, a predicate of the 'imagined community' that can be subscribed to in different wa…
Discourses of Deception: Cheating in Professional Running 1
Cheating, it is claimed, is anathema to sport. But is this the case? In this paper it is argued that cheating is integral to modern sport, that the model of sport as ‘fair play’ is simply an ideological guise of amateurism. The paper focuses on the sport of professional running which, since its origins in the eighteenth century, has been a gambling sport. Strategies involving cheating to manipulate wins, or losses, have featured in this sport as …
Conspiring to Run: Women, their Bodies and Athletics Training
Women's athletics commenced about 60 years after the start of the men's sport. Women's involvement in athletics was held back by the medical and general views that this was a strenuous sport requiring a level of exertion beyond the biological capabilities of female bodies. Their difficult initiation into athletics occurred under male gaze; they encountered opposition from the public, the medical profession and from the male-controlled athletics o…
Sociology (8 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Scottish History and National Identity (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Athletes (2 works)