Abstract Anthropologists Niko Besnier, Susan Brownell, and Thomas Carter have recently contributed a theoretically- and empirically-updated account of sport anthropology, the burgeoning, heterogenous, productive field dedicated to the myriad forms of sport and physical activity in human societies. This essay dialogically relates their contribution with previous conceptions of sport anthropology to better understand the interconnections between global and local contexts of physical culture and the relations between anthropological inquiry and important issues like social power, biopolitics, and colonialism. The essay specifically highlights the authors’ contextualization of assumptions of modernization and categorizations of “primitive” and “pre-modern” sport, arguing that a postcolonial approach to sport anthropology results in a more inclusive, nuanced framework for studying the anthropological dimensions of physical culture.

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现代化，殖民主义和体育新人类学

摘要人类学家尼科·贝斯尼尔，苏珊·布朗内尔和托马斯·卡特最近对运动人类学做出了理论上和经验上的更新，这是专门研究人类社会无数形式的运动和体育活动的蓬勃发展，异质的生产领域。本文通过对话将他们的贡献与先前的体育人类学概念联系起来，以更好地理解全球和当地体育文化背景之间的联系，以及人类学探究与社会力量，生物政治和殖民主义等重要问题之间的关系。这篇文章特别强调了作者对现代化假设以及“原始”和“前现代”运动的分类的语境化，并指出，后殖民主义的运动人类学方法导致更具包容性的，