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This course examines academic work on sports to better understand anthropology. Through sports we will ask: What does it means to engage anthropology as a mode of social-science inquiry? Whether you are a participant or a fan, looking at sports through the scholarly lens of anthropology invites a rigorous, fine-grained analysis that expands the frame of what we think happens when we play or watch competitive athletics. Although our focus will be on anthropology, the texts we will read present a distinctive opportunity to better understand related social-science disciplines such as, sociology, political science, economics, and history. Through this course’s scholarly encounter with sports you will learn how to analyze and apply ethnographic, qualitative methods and to cultivate an anthropological mode of questioning that will broaden your understanding of ethics, gender, race, nationalism, colonialism, and Christianity