In case you're not aware, Robert Whiting books are the go-to here. Meaning of Ichiro and You Gotta Have Wa. Love all the sosc tensions
@sean_ahmed Took a class in college where we spent a couple weeks on the racism and distortion of Whiting's work, FWIW.
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@NateMeyvis Interesting. Didn't get the same from U of C anthro prof. Does it boil down to cultural bias against Japanese side of it? -
@sean_ahmed Claims about managers being OK with ties don't hold up, statistically. "Samurai baseball" largely empty, racist rhetoric. - Show replies
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@NateMeyvis I don't take it all at face value or too strongly, but I find there's a lot of food for thought on the various intersections -
@sean_ahmed It is harder for anthropologists to go study the Japanese game now because of anger, defensiveness about Whiting's inaccuracies. - Show replies
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