Shifting Currents: A World History Of Swimming Karen Eva Carr Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία Health Family & Life Style Sports And Fitness

Shifting Currents Is An Original And Comprehensive History Of Swimming It Examines The Tension That Arose When Non-Swimming Northerners Met African Southeast Asian Swimmers Using Archaeological Textual Art Historical Sources Karen Eva Carr Shows How Water Simultaneously Attracted Repelled These – Seemed Uncanny Related To Witchcraft Sin Europeans Used Africans’ Native Americans\ Skills Justify Enslaving Them But Also Wanted Claim Water’s Power For Themselves They Imagined Would Bring Health Demonstrate Their Scientific Modernity This Unresolved Still Sexualizes Women’s Marginalizes Black Indigenous Today A New Lens Through Which Gain Clearer View Race Gender On Centuries-Long Scale Σελίδες: 456 Διαστάσεις: 15 6X15 6Cm