Summary
Ivan Đorđević: Anthropologist among the fans
"The important thing about football is that it always represents something more than football", Terry Pratchett wrote in one of his novels and thus in a witty and simple way described the game that today attracts the attention of a huge number of people around the world. Agreeing with that, I can also say that this book of mine about football is primarily a book about some social phenomena that accompany it. Like other phenomena of popular culture, football came into the focus of scientists in the sixties of the twentieth century, attracting attention primarily because of its massiveness and popularity. He stopped being with it is one of the marginal and "frivolous" human activities that do not deserve to be dealt with by "serious" science, becoming a legitimate and fertile area for analysis in sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and anthropology. Today, dealing with football as a cultural phenomenon from the perspective of social sciences and humanities represents a relatively widespread academic practice throughout Europe and the world, as evidenced by the large number of study programs, books and professional journals dedicated to the study of topics related to football...
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