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Episode 23: Football Fans and Football Fools, the Divine Madness of Sports Fandom

from An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans · host John Lehr & John McCray

The Two Humans paint their faces and tear their shirts as they investigate why football makes people so damn crazy. Episode 23 - Football Fans and Football Fools: The Divine Madness of Sports Fandom An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. www.intro2anthro.podbean.com https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG @introtoanthrowith2humans Resources: Besnier, Niko, Susan Brownell, and Thomas F. Carter 2018 The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics. University of California Press, Oakland, CA. Brown, Timothy P. 2020 How Football Became Football: 150 Years of the Game’s Evolution. Brown House Publishing, West Bloomfield, MI. Bruyneel, Kevin 2016 Race, Colonialism, and the Politics of Indian Sports Names and Mascots: The Washington Football Team Case. Native American and Indigenous Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2016), pp. 1-24. Herrera, Eduardo 2018 Masculinity, Violence, and Deindividuation in Argentine Soccer Chants: The Sonic Potentials of Participatory Sounding-in Synchrony. Ethnomusicology, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Fall 2018), pp. 470-499. Keys, Barbara 2013 Senses and Emotions in the History of Sport. Journal of Sports History, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp.21-38. Lomax,Michael E. 1999 The African American Experience in Professional Football. Journal of Social History, Autumn, 1999, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 163-178. Maffesoli, Michel 1996 The Time of the Tribes: The Decline of Individualism in Mass Society (Don Smith, Trans.). Sage Publications, London, UK. Mandelbaum, Michael 2004 The Meaning of Sports. Public Affairs, New York, NY. Merrill, George E. 1903 Is Football Good Sport? The North American Review, Vol. 177, No. 564 (Nov., 1903), pp. 758-765. Meyers, Chistopher C. 2009 “Unrelenting War on Football”: The Death of Richard Von Gammon and the Attempt to Ban Football in Georgia. The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 2009, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Winter 2009), pp. 388-407. Morris, Desmond 1981 The Soccer Tribe. Rizzoli, New York, NY. Murrin, John M. 2001 Rites of Domination: Princeton, the Big Three, and the Rise of Intercollegiate Athletics. The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Winter 2001), pp. 161-206. Senkbeil, Karsten 2016 Unpopular Sport Teams and the Social Psychology of ‘Anti-Fans.’ Unpopular Culture (ed. Martin Luthe and Sascha Pohlman). Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Smith, Thomas G. 1988 Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from the National Football League, 1934-1946. Journal of Sport History, Winter, 1988 (Vol. 15, No. 3, Special Issue: The Black Athlete in American Sport (Winter, 1988), pp. 255-281. Stroeken, Koen 2002 Why ‘The World’ Loves Watching Football (And ‘The Americans’ Don’t). Anthropology Today, Jun., 2002, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jun., 2002), pp. 9-13.

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