00000cab a22000003a 4500 UP-1685675941123976207 Buklod 20231008011924.0 a r |||| u| ta 210520s xx d | ||r ||||| || UPVTC eng Perez, Micah Jeiel R. author. Play and propaganda the sports of the Ilustrados in nineteenth-century Europe Micah Jeiel R. Perez. Quezon City Ateneo de Manila University 2020. pp.241-284. "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 Spain. Ilustrados. Philippine studies : historical and ethnographic viewpoints 68, 2 (Jun2020). FI UPTAC UPTAC Article