Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition Wacquant Loc
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition Wacquant Loc When French sociologist Lo�c Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in Chicago's South Side, he had never…
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Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition Wacquant Loc
When French sociologist Lo�c Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases of the pugilist's strenuous preparation, from shadow-boxing drills to sparring to fighting in the Golden Gloves tournament. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional alike.
And he supplies a model for a carnal sociology capable of capturing the taste and ache of action.This updated edition features a new preface and postface that elaborate upon Bourdieu's theory of habitus, demonstrating the ways in which In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer fleshes out Pierre Bourdieu's signal concept of habitus, deepening our theoretical grasp of human practice.