The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in North India / [electronic resource]
Alter, Joseph S.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c1992.
This book tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This book tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.
Description based on print version record.
Wrestling
Wrestling
Recreation & Sports
Social Sciences