1. Sport as symbol. Heroic dramas and athletic actors
2. The adversary in nature. The hunt: power of life and death
The hunt domesticated: ritual origins of the bullfight
3. The human adversary. Combat sports: the socialization of conflict
4. The adversary within. Transcending time and space
Metaphors of love, death, and rebirth
5. Symbolic actors and social dramas. High priests and super stars.