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Article: On the structural origins of Olympic individuality.
- Article from:
- Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport
- Article date:
- June 1, 1996
- Author:
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With the human sciences again caught up in hand wringing over the Western "structure versus agency" antinomy, it is worth recalling that historical inquiry into particular cases has its own way of clarifying theoretical fusses. Take for example the presently notorious argument between Marshall Sahlins's mytho-structural and Gananath Obeyesekere's psycho-pragmatic understandings of Europe's early encounters with classical Hawaii.(1) Commentators who see the issue as first of all one of plain old-fashioned quellenkritik have had little trouble determining both the empirical winner and what is ideologized in the accompanying "theoretical" debate.(2)
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