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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 December 2009
      29 August 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511613760
      9780521808774
      9780521004879
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613760
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.43kg, 200 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.441kg, 200 Pages
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      Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology: General Interest, Anthropology, Sociology
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    The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making statements about animals, we reveal something of ourselves. It explains the action that takes place on racecourses, in training yards, on studs and at bloodstock auctions. It analyses the consumption of racing through betting on the racecourse and in betting shops, and it proffers an insightful description of a unique class system: that of the humans and animals involved in the production of British flat racing.

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    ‘This is an exhilarating book. You feel affection and empathy for Newmarket people … Above all, the reader feels affection towards the author … we watch over her, sleeping in the back of a smelly horse box, returning from a race … [The book] is both academic and animal, with the author putting herself on the line.’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    ‘… a finely nuanced analytical and interpretative account of the society and culture that centers on producing and interacting with the most expensive animals in the world. Anthrozoology needs many more such studies.‘

    Source: Anthrozoös

    ‘This entertaining book deals with kinship, class, and breeding through an ethnographic study of the racing industry, and, specifically, of the Newmarket stud farm and racing stables … Her background is comfortable enough for her to move between different social groups, her authorial expertise deriving from her roles as owner, trainer, trainer‘s assistant, stable lass, and stud hand. … This enjoyable book is recommended as a case study to those who wish to have some idea of the interaction of British class, capital, and kinship in the racing industry, without the financial outlay that hands-on experience requires.‘

    Source: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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