HKIN 299

The topic for 2026-2027 is Anthropology of Sport. Sport captures the minds and money of billions of people every day, the Olympics, World Cup Soccer, American College Football, and Little League World Series. Television, radio, cell phones, internet keep us updated on the latest scores, highlights, and goings on of our favourite and least favourite athletic personalities. Sport will be critically examined through major anthropological categories of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and power. We will be using sport as the focal point with which to examine and compare varying attitudes, institutions, and social dynamics of sport globally. Cross-listed as ANTH 299.