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The Shock of the Old response

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The reading for this week was interesting as the book challenged the way we think of technology in history. I am not talking about the classic made us seen technology in a new light but more of it tried to open our eyes the the way technology is viewed in different countries and how we…

Edgerton response

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After reading Edgerton’s The Shock of the Old I realized that I have jumped to many conclusions regarding how people lived throughout recent history and importance of technology in those times. I never would have dreamed that the German army in World War 2 used more horses in their campaign against Russia than in World…

Brownell response

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I will admit that it was a little boring for me this time around, but I believe that it was because I was expecting more of an anthropological perspective than a historical perspective when I started reading this book. The way it was introduced made it start out with her experiences and maybe going into…

Brownell response

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Susan Brownell’s book Training the Body for China I think gives an extreme form of the growing nationalism around organized sports. People in China, at least from what she said, seem to care a lot more about beating international rivals, specifically Japan, and find a lot more satisfaction in victory than other countries seem to.…

Reading Response and Tentative Topic for Final

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The concept of Nationalism tied to sports really does, ultimately, prove that Sports are essentially small-scale wars. I think it also creates a question of who is “playing” the game: the players, or the people with investment who watch? The way sports/body-culture have shaped propaganda and vice versa brings to question the sorts of motivations behind…

Training the Body

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A player is not just interfacing with the game, they’re interfacing with the people watching it, too.

Go Nation

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At first I was really excited to read this book as I said last week that Go is one of my favorite games but that excitement diminished page by page as I read more into the sexist ideals in China from the game of weiqi. The part that struck me the most was when the…

Response and Image

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I adored this week’s reading on weiqi, liubo, and Chinese playing cards. They were all unique in their own way but what stuck out to me was weiqi. Now I know that we are going more in-depth with weiqi next week but I have been fascinated with weiqi, I knew it as go and thought…

Birth of the Chess Queen

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Chess began its roots in India without the central piece on the board. The queen was introduced when the game continued to be adapted as it traveled throughout the world. When the game arrived to Europe, Isabelle Queen of Spain came into the picture as a strong force to deal with. Thus, there was a…