Kinesiology 2263F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Offence, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Arctic Winter Games
20 Apr 2016
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Chapter 7: aboriginal games at the arctic winter games. Games of northern aboriginal people (inuit and dene) are sometimes practised in ways that express their own inherent meaningfulness and cultural significance, even when they are played in the organizational context of a sports competition. Dene games before the expansion of the settler state"s sports system into the arctic and subarctic: examine a cultural and sport festival, arctic winter games. A sporting logic of practice: the performance principle. Heterotransplantation- from the urbanizations of southern canada to the northern communities. The organizational model of southern sports was transplanted to aboriginal communities in northern. The sports system was transplanted from its original context, the urbanizations of the south, with little input from the northern communities concerned, and without regard for the differences between southern. Canada and the nwt which have affected the transplantation of sports to the north . Participation would not be meaningful without an element of competition.
