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Talk on indigenous and colonials aspects of the histories of sports in South America.

Matthew Brown (Sports in South America (Yale 2023) will show how football, cycling, boxing, cockfighting, bullfighting, cricket, baseball, horse-racing, have been marked by South American societies’ indigenous and colonial pasts. Drawing on original archival research, he debunks legends, highlights the stories of forgotten sportswomen and indigenous sports, and unpacks the social and cultural connections within South America and with the rest of the world.