Futbol jako maszyna kulturowa? Narracje o argentyńskiej tożsamości
Football as a Cultural Machine? Narrations about Argentinian Identity

Summary/Abstract: The point of departure for the presented reflections on the significance of football for the formation of Argentinian national identity is the book by Pablo Alabarces: Fútbol y Patria. El fútbol y las narrativas de la nación en la Argentina, an attempt at scientific examination with the assistance of categories borrowed from studies on culture, sociology and anthropology. The author argues that in certain countries football can be a crucial phenomenon enabling the examination of culture; more, today it appears to be a phenomenon that allows a description of global post-national television culture. The author claims that Alabarces’ book is not a work about football but a pioneering publication on cultural studies, for which football comprises “only” the object of cognition.

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