00000cab a22000004a 4500 IPP-00000660694 IPP 20241210133340.0 241210s2020 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Perez, Micah Jeiel R. Play and Propaganda The Sports of the Ilustrados in Nineteenth-Century Europe Play and Propaganda 2020 The adoption of nineteenth-century European sporting practices was a component in the ilustrados’ creation of a national identity. By highlighting the ilustrados’ participation in modernizing individual sports (e.g., gymnastics, fencing, and pistol shooting), the article shows how the adoption of foreign sports promised these young men from the Spanish Philippines an opportunity to stand on equal footing with their supposed betters. The constant training of the body was treated as a tool to maintain health, a weapon against vices, and an avenue to achieve excellence in a modern cultural space associated with ideals of masculinity and civilization. Sports -- Social aspects Sports Masculinity Modernity Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 68, no. 2 (Jun. 2020), 241-264 Article FI