Skip to main

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Término preferido

highland games  

Definición

  • In his pioneering research on the Highland Games, Grant Jarvie (1991) identifies four stages or phases of development, and highlights how the development of this sporting tradition parallels broader social structural transformations in Scotland. In the first phase, from around the eleventh century to 1750, many of the folk origins of the sporting practices and cultural artefacts of what we now understand to constitute the Highland Games were evident (e.g. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies; Highland Games]

Pertenece al grupo

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-C0LGCHWV-3

Descargue este concepto: