{"id":94,"date":"2012-10-23T22:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T22:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-07-06T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T21:11:28","slug":"cultural-sociology-of-the-middle-east-asia-and-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/cultural-sociology-of-the-middle-east-asia-and-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cultural-Sociology-Middle-East-Africa\/dp\/141298176X\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-661 alignleft\" alt=\"CultSocCover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CultSocCover.jpg\" width=\"287\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CultSocCover.jpg 478w, https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/CultSocCover-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a>Western sports like soccer, tennis, baseball and cricket spread to Asia beginning in the mid-to-late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century. Many (e.g. rugby, soccer, cricket, golf) had origins in the United Kingdom, were incubated in that nation\u2019s public schools, and were played and taught throughout the British Empire. Others (e.g. baseball, basketball, volleyball) were American inventions brought to Asia by teachers and missionaries living abroad. Throughout the modern period, sports were seen as symbols of colonialism, used as tools of national self-assertion, and today they reflect a global consumer culture that has developed during our most recent surge of increased contact and economic interdependency, what many call \u2018globalization\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Continuing reading\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/AaronLMiller2012aSportsEncyclopediaEntry.pdf\">here<\/a>. Buy the encyclopedia for which this was written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagepub.com\/books\/Book234665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western sports like soccer, tennis, baseball and cricket spread to Asia beginning in the mid-to-late 19th century. Many (e.g. rugby, soccer, cricket, golf) had origins in the United Kingdom, were incubated in that nation\u2019s public schools, and were played and taught throughout the British Empire. Others (e.g. baseball, basketball, volleyball) were American inventions brought to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/cultural-sociology-of-the-middle-east-asia-and-africa\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sports in Asia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-encyclopedia","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}