Violence
Edmund Leach, 23 October 1986
The Anthropology of Violence
edited by David Riches.
Blackwell, 232 pp., £25, September 1986,0 631 14788 8 Show More
edited by David Riches.
Blackwell, 232 pp., £25, September 1986,
Quest for Excitement: Sport and Leisure in the Civilising Process
by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning.
Blackwell, 313 pp., £19.50, August 1986,0 631 14654 7 Show More
by Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning.
Blackwell, 313 pp., £19.50, August 1986,
Sport, Power and Culture: A Social and Historical Analysis of Popular Sports in Britain
by John Hargreaves.
Polity, 258 pp., £25, September 1986,0 7456 0153 7 Show More
by John Hargreaves.
Polity, 258 pp., £25, September 1986,
“... is altogether too wide. A narrower view of what violence is about is to be preferred. The Elias/Dunning and Hargreaves volumes go to the opposite extreme. Both are concerned almost exclusively with sport in Great Britain and a very large part of both texts is devoted to football violence, especially among spectators at soccer matches. Some of the ... ”