Re-creating the clan: “brotherhood” and solidarity at the Masters World Championship Highland Games (original) (raw)

Bowness, James(2019) Re-creating the clan: “brotherhood” and solidarity at the Masters World Championship Highland Games. In: Harris, John and Wise, Nicholas (eds.)Events, Places and Societies. Routledge. ISBN 9781138482470

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Abstract

This chapter is based on data collected at the 2014 MWC event in Inverness. The broader aim of the study was to understand the experiences of Masters athletes participating in a sport that challenges common narratives of ageing men and women. In-depth semi-structured interviews were used with 19 Highland Games Masters athletes in the 8 months following the championships. Interviews involved the eclectic combination of life history, ethnographic and phenomenological approaches. An ethnographic approach was used to comprehend the processes of meaning making and ritual within the Masters Highland Games community (Hammersley, 2006).

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