Loving Enemies or Masculinities

Loving Enemies: A Manual for Ordinary People

Author: Randy Klassen

Like parents and grandparents everywhere, Randy and Joyce Klassen are deeply concerned about the state of the world in which their children and grandchildren will be living. Will violence and wars escalate? Or will the world's peoples, including those in a United States so often involved in war, try a different way? Will even ordinary people commit ourselves to selfless love? Will we strengthen and expand the reality of justice and peace in our world? This book is a manual for those of us ready to try. As Robert K. Johnston, Fuller Theological Seminary, observes in the Foreword, the authors "remind us how inspired we become by the illogic of nonviolence, how moved we are by the redemptive role of forgiveness, how alluring and inviting the example of those like Martin Luther King Jr. or Christians in the Philippines."

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Masculinities: An Anthropology of Football, Polo and Tango

Author: Eduardo P Archetti

The complex relationship between nationalism and masculinity has been explored both historically and sociologically with one consistent conclusion: male concepts of courage and virility are at the core of nationalism. In this ground-breaking book, the author questions this assumption and advances the debate through an empirical analysis of masculinity in the revealing contexts of same-sex (football and polo) and cross-sex (tango) relations. Because of its rich history, Argentina provides the ideal setting in which to study the intersection of masculine and national constructs: hybridization, creolization and a culture of performance have all informed both gender and national identities. Further, the author argues that, counter to claims made by globalization theorists, the importance of performance to Argentinian men and women has a long history and has powerfully shaped the national psyche.

But this book takes the analysis far beyond national boundaries to address general arguments in anthropology which are not culture-specific, and the discussion poses important comparative questions and addresses central theoretical issues, from the interplay of morality and ritual, to a comparison between the popular and the aristocratic, to the importance of 'othering' in national constructions - particularly those relating to sport.

This book represents a major contribution, not only to anthropology, but to the study of gender, nationalism and culture in its broadest sense.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Prologue
	Introduction: Frameworks and Perspectives	1
Pt. I	Hybridization	21
Ch. 1	Situating Hybridity and Hybrids	23
Ch. 2	Male Hybrids in the World of Football	46
Ch. 3	Hybridization and Male Hybrids in the World of Polo	77
Pt. II	Masculine Moralities	111
Ch. 4	Locating Masculinities and Moralities	113
Ch. 5	Masculinities and Morality in the Poetics of the Argentinian Tango	128
Ch. 6	Masculine National Virtues and Moralities in Football	161
Ch. 7	The Masculine Imagery of Freedom: the World of Pibes and Maradona	180
	Epilogue	190
	Bibliography	194
	Index	208