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Genre |
: Ball games |
Author |
: American Ethnological Society |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1940 |
File |
: 142 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OSU:32435027239813 |
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Originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1975.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Mary W. Helms |
Publisher |
: University Press of America |
Release |
: 1982 |
File |
: 386 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0819122300 |
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Brian Sutton-Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1976 |
File |
: 408 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UTEXAS:059173017998005 |
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Winner of the 2016 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing: The true story of the game that never should have happened -- and of a nation on the brink of monumental change. In the fall of 1943, at the little-known North Carolina College for Negroes, Coach John McLendon was on the verge of changing basketball forever. A protégé of James Naismith, the game's inventor, McLendon taught his team to play the full-court press and run a fast break that no one could catch. His Eagles would become the highest-scoring college team in America -- a basketball juggernaut that shattered its opponents by as many as sixty points per game. Yet his players faced danger whenever they traveled backcountry roads. Across town, at Duke University, the best basketball squad on campus wasn't the Blue Devils, but an all-white military team from the Duke medical school. Composed of former college stars from across the country, the team dismantled everyone they faced, including the Duke varsity. They were prepared to take on anyone -- until an audacious invitation arrived, one that was years ahead of anything the South had ever seen before. What happened next wasn't on anyone's schedule. Based on years of research, The Secret Game is a story of courage and determination, and of an incredible, long-buried moment in the nation's sporting past. The riveting, true account of a remarkable season, it is the story of how a group of forgotten college basketball players, aided by a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany and a group of daring student activists, not only blazed a trail for a new kind of America, but helped create one of the most meaningful moments in basketball history.
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Genre |
: Sports & Recreation |
Author |
: Scott Ellsworth |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Release |
: 2015-03-10 |
File |
: 400 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780316244633 |
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Genre |
: Ethnology |
Author |
: Julian Haynes Steward |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1946 |
File |
: 908 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UFL:31262077599297 |
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Genre |
: Indians of South America |
Author |
: Julian Haynes Steward |
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: |
Release |
: 1946 |
File |
: 984 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105004956871 |
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Discusses Native American commerce, transportation and wars, including land and water transportation, weapons and armor, and traders.
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Genre |
: Juvenile Nonfiction |
Author |
: Emory Dean Keoke |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Release |
: 2005 |
File |
: 161 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816069743 |
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Recognizing the widespread American Indian belief that you can learn while you play and play while you learn, "Native American Games and Stories" provides young readers with stories and games that educate and entertain them. Illustrations.
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Genre |
: Juvenile Nonfiction |
Author |
: James Bruchac |
Publisher |
: Fulcrum Publishing |
Release |
: 2000 |
File |
: 100 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 1555919790 |
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This second edition is a concise history of Latin America from the Aztecs and Incas to Independence.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Matthew Restall |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2018-06-14 |
File |
: 367 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781108416405 |
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The Precolumbian ballgame, played on a masonry court, has long intrigued scholars because of the magnificence of its archaeological remains. From its lowland Maya origins it spread throughout the Aztec empire, where the game was so popular that sixteen thousand rubber balls were imported annually into Tenochtitlan. It endured for two thousand years, spreading as far as to what is now southern Arizona. This new collection of essays brings together research from field archaeology, mythology, and Maya hieroglyphic studies to illuminate this important yet puzzling aspect of Native American culture. The authors demonstrate that the game was more than a spectator sport; serving social, political, mythological, and cosmological functions, it celebrated both fertility and the afterlife, war and peace, and became an evolving institution functioning in part to resolve conflict within and between groups. The contributors provide complete coverage of the archaeological, sociopolitical, iconographic, and ideological aspects of the game, and offer new information on the distribution of ballcourts, new interpretations of mural art, and newly perceived relations of the game with material in the Popol Vuh. With its scholarly attention to a subject that will fascinate even general readers, The Mesoamerican Ballgame is a major contribution to the study of the mental life and outlook of New World peoples.
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Genre |
: Social Science |
Author |
: Vernon L. Scarborough |
Publisher |
: University of Arizona Press |
Release |
: 1993-01-01 |
File |
: 426 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816513600 |