Physical anthropology

Author: Rao Yuan, Chen Bin / Country:
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Sports anthropology is a discipline that applies anthropological theories and methods to study cultural activities related to sports. From the perspective of human evolution, sports anthropology explores changes in physical structure and movement patterns during human evolution, the origin, evolution, development, and variation of various physical movement cultures, the relationship between physical movement cultures and the natural environment, the transmission and variation of sports cultures as a medium of cultural exchange, the function of sports cultures in the entire cultural system and their relationship with other elements of the cultural system, as well as the inheritance and promotion of traditional sports and competitive cultures of different ethnic groups. Sports anthropology involves games, competitions, exercises, dances, and many aspects of human physical movement.