Category: Sports Anthropology
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RIZIN Fighting Federation Kept MMA Weird and Human
RIZIN Fighting Federation survived ten years by preserving the strange, theatrical, collaborative MMA spirit the UFC could never fully absorb.
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Fighting in the Age of Collapse
As institutions fail and collapse becomes constant, the UFC thrives as pure spectacle; yet every movement in the cage still carries older histories of resistance.
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Baseball Stadiums and the Geography of Urban Power
The evolution of baseball stadiums mirrors suburban sprawl, housing inequality, and the infrastructure choices that shaped modern North America.
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Sports, Ritual, and the Hidden Machinery of Allegiance
How modern sports act as ritual theaters that shape identity, loyalty, and political emotion, revealing the symbolic power behind our most familiar games.
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Ritual Combat and Spectacle from Antiquity to Today
From the Mesoamerican ball game to MMA, societies have used controlled danger and symbolic violence to shape identity, hierarchy, and collective meaning.
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