Traditional sports and games

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Kabaddi, a traditional Indian game which has become increasingly popular around the world. Kabaddi Game play(2273574).jpg
Kabaddi, a traditional Indian game which has become increasingly popular around the world.

Traditional sports and games (often abbreviated TSG) are physical activities which were played for centuries by people around the world even before the civilization started, before the advent of modern Western sports. Many TSGs lost popularity or died off during the colonial era due to the imposition and spread of Western sports. [1] [2] [3] Further decline has occurred in the post-colonial era. [4] [5] [6]

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UNESCO promotes TSG as a form of "intangible cultural heritage", and had a dedicated TSG Advisory Committee. [7] [8] Four Collective Consultation Meetings: 2006 in Paris, 2009 in Teheran, 2017 in Paris have been held so far by UNESCO, with the fourth one in 2018 in Istanbul gathering more than 82 participants from 40 countries. [9]

TSG has been linked to the way in which various peoples followed religious duties and promoted social cooperation along with a better understanding of their relationship to nature; [10] [11] [12] [13] TSG is also seen as a possible way to increase intercultural dialogue. [14] [15]

History

Sepak takraw, a traditional Southeast Asian sport, being played at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Korea. 2014 Asian Games 3.jpg
Sepak takraw, a traditional Southeast Asian sport, being played at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, Korea.

During the colonial era, resistance to and influence from Western sports resulted in the standardization and introduction of organized competition for several traditional South Asian games such as kabaddi. [16] [17] [18]

From the 18th century onwards, researchers have taken a greater interest in the value of traditional games in elucidating cultural values and identities. For example, Joseph Strutt in 1801 wrote that "In order to form a just estimation of the character of any particular people, it is absolutely necessary to investigate the Sports and Pastimes most generally prevalent among them." [19] The modern Olympic Games were influenced by this thinking, and were founded by Pierre de Coubertin on the basis of "All games, all nations", though this aspect of the Olympics was never fully realized and quickly faded away after a few years, with mainly only Western sports being played. [20]

From the 1970's onwards, global attention and institutionalization has taken place to preserve TSG. [21] In some European countries, the revival of traditional games has served as a way for regional identities to be expressed in a political or educational way. [20]

TSG has been increasingly accepted into international multi-sport events such as the Asian Games and SEA Games. [22] [23]


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References

  1. ↑ Leng, Ho Keat; Pyun, Do Young; Lin, Yen-Chun (2023-07-14). "Special issue: sports and leisure management in Asia". Managing Sport and Leisure: 1–3. doi: 10.1080/23750472.2023.2207865 . ISSN   2375-0472. S2CID   259909018.
  2. ↑ Vaczi, Mariann; Bairner, Alan (2023-10-06). Indigenous, Traditional, and Folk Sports: Contesting Modernities. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   978-1-000-98328-9.
  3. ↑ Karen, David; Washington, Robert E. (2015-03-02). Sociological Perspectives on Sport: The Games Outside the Games. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-97394-2.
  4. ↑ "Endangered Species of the Physical Cultural Landscape: Globalization, Nationalism, and Safeguarding Traditional Folk Games". scholar.google.ca. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
  5. ↑ Gilmour, Callum; Rowe, David (2012-12-01). "Sport in Malaysia: National Imperatives and Western Seductions" . Sociology of Sport Journal. 29 (4): 485–505. doi:10.1123/ssj.29.4.485. ISSN   0741-1235.
  6. ↑ Shehu, Jimoh (2004). "Sport for all in postcolony: Is there a place for indigenous games in physical education curriculum and research in Africa" . Africa Education Review. 1 (1): 21–33. doi:10.1080/18146620408566267. ISSN   1814-6627. S2CID   143955748.
  7. ↑ Kumari, Sonia (2019-03-29). "UNESCO TSG visited for the possibilities of organizing Traditional Sports and Games in South Korea". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2023-11-05.
  8. ↑ Berti, Francesca (2023-07-10). The Shared Space of Play: Traditional Games as a Tool of Intercultural Education. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN   978-3-643-91231-2.
  9. ↑ Khan, Khalil Ahmed; Tluehan, Bekbolat (2019). "UNESCO traditional sports and games". Педагогико-психологические и медико-биологические проблемы физической культуры и спорта. 14 (2 (eng)): 5–8.
  10. ↑ Traditional Physical Cultures, Sport and Games https://www.icsspe.org/
  11. ↑ Early History of Recreation and Leisure https://samples.jblearning.com/
  12. ↑ Traditional Sports and Games: A New Opportunity for Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage https://ceur-ws.org/ Mariate Linaza, Kieran Moran, and Noel E. O’Connor
  13. ↑ "Playing in nature: Traditional games and environmental stewardship". sportanddev. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  14. ↑ Saura, Soraia Chung; Zimmermann, Ana Cristina (2021). "Traditional Sports and Games: Intercultural Dialog, Sustainability, and Empowerment". Frontiers in Psychology. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.590301 . ISSN   1664-1078. PMC   7873946 . PMID   33584427.
  15. ↑ Parlebas, Pierre (2020). "The Universals of Games and Sports". Frontiers in Psychology. 11. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.593877 . ISSN   1664-1078. PMC   7609522 . PMID   33192937.
  16. ↑ Bromber, Katrin; Krawietz, Birgit; Maguire, Joseph (2013). Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities. Routledge. ISBN   978-0-415-88438-9.
  17. ↑ Love, Adam; Dzikus, Lars (2020-02-26). "How India came to love cricket, favored sport of its colonial British rulers". The Conversation. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  18. ↑ Fischer-Tiné, Harald (2018-09-25). "Fitness for Modernity? The YMCA and physical-education schemes in late-colonial South Asia (circa1900–40)" . Modern Asian Studies. 53 (2): 512–559. doi:10.1017/s0026749x17000300. ISSN   0026-749X. S2CID   149530821.
  19. ↑ Domingo, Darryl P. (2018). "The Character of a People: Sports and Pastimes in Eighteenth-Century Britain". Eighteenth-Century Life. 42 (3): 81–88. ISSN   1086-3192.
  20. 1 2 Hardman, Ken; Green, Ken (2011). Contemporary Issues in Physical Education: International Perspectives. Meyer & Meyer Verlag. ISBN   978-1-84126-312-0.
  21. ↑ "The Come-back of traditional sports and games". unesdoc.unesco.org. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  22. ↑ Service (KOCIS), Korean Culture and Information. "Some sports only available at Asian Games : Korea.net : The official website of the Republic of Korea". www.korea.net. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  23. ↑ Creak, Simon (2017). "Eternal friends and erstwhile enemies: The regional sporting community of the Southeast Asian Games". TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia. 5 (1): 147–172. doi: 10.1017/trn.2016.29 . ISSN   2051-364X. S2CID   133117373.
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