Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilising process
Annals of Leisure ResearchPublished 14 September 2015
Lone Friis Thing
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This book is a classic in the sociology of sport and leisure. Although it was first published in 1986, parts of the book were written as far back as 1967, when Elias delivered a paper for the Annua...
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