GutCheck! An Anthropologist's Wild Ride into the Heart of College Football

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Summary: Gut......Wrenching-Don't check it out
Review: Generally, I found the content overly academic. I guess this would be ok for Sands anthro classes, but not real great for non-Sands students.

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Summary: Too Academic for Non-academics
Review: Generally, I found the content overly academic. I guess this would be ok for Sands anthro classes, but not real great for non-Sands students.

Rating:
Summary: Gut......Wrenching-Don't check it out
Review: GutWrenching is a better title. Anthropologist or not-it's more fun and enlightening to sit on the sidelines of a ball game than to toil through this rhetoric.

Football is fun-this book was not.

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Summary: A seminal, scholarly, informative, fascinating book.
Review: In GutCheck!: An Anthropologist's Wild Ride into the heart of College Football, anthropologist Robert Sands shares the findings and observations of his two year research and playing collegiate football at Santa Barbara City College while he was a professor on the faculty. Sands writes with a sensitivity and insight that is rare in football literature and GutCheck! will be especially appreciated by mothers of football sons, as well as the growing numbers of women interested in the sport and seeking an understanding of this male-dominated sport. GutCheck! is a seminal and informative contribution to both cultural anthropology and personal or academic sports/football library collections.