From Baggataway to Lacrosse
An Example of the Sportization of Native American Games
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12218596 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fabrice Delsahut (Sorbonne Université, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 923-938 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523367.2015.1038252 |
| OpenAlex | W1589013404 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The purpose of this paper is to present a historical anthropological study of the sportization of lacrosse. The Native American game called lacrosse originally refers both to a ritual and an activity; the technical, physical, and magic-religious acts were combined in a single practice. In the nineteenth century, under the leadership of the Canadian William G. Beers, a true institutionalization of lacrosse took place through a process whose purpose was to ‘control’ the game, in which the political and economic necessities have become dominant. Is this shift from the original game to a sport an epistemological shift or a sporting hybridization process between the two practices
Institutionalisation · MAGIC (telescope · Media studies · Native american · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Doping in Sports · History · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |