Fighting Scholars : Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Key Issues in Modern Sociology
ISBN-10
0857283324
ISBN-13
9780857283320
Publisher
Anthem Press
Imprint
Anthem Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2013
Print length
234 Pages
Weight
498 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 15.20 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Sociology: sport & leisureSociology: sport and leisure
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'Fighting Scholars' presents insightful ethnographic research on several different martial arts and combat sports, taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis. Interdisciplinary in its approach, it contains contributions from leading international figures on martial arts and combat sports.
''Fighting Scholars'' presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant''s ''Body and Soul'': the construction of a ''carnal sociology'' that constitutes an exploration of the social world ''from'' the body.
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