Arbena, Joseph. An Annotated Bibliography of Latin American Sport: Pre-Conquest to the Present. New York: Greenwood Press, c1989.

This bibliography annotates more than 1300 texts and mainly includes books, articles, documents, and unpublished theses relevant to the study of sports in Latin America, covering an extended time period from before the European conquest to the present. The majority of the citations include annotations regarding materials' special features, highlights, and interpretative approaches. Materials included are mainly in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and a few in French, Italian, and German. Some conceptual and theoretical studies of sports are also included.

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Arbena, Joseph. Latin American Sport: An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1998. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999. 

This book primarily includes articles published between 1988 and 1998 and a few materials published before 1988 that had not been included in the previous bibliography but were considered valuable for the study of sports in Latin America. Items listed contain brief annotations referring to each publication's main features. Materials included in this bibliography are authored by journalists and some academic researchers addressing the history of sports in Latin America as well as the diverse problems related to them. The most recurrent sport included in this publication is soccer and in second place is baseball.

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