Fighting scholars
Subtitle: habitus and ethnographies of martial arts and combat sports
By: edited by Raúl Sánchez García and Dale C. Spencer
Series: Key issues in modern sociology
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780857283320
Subjects: Martial arts; Anthropological aspects
Description: 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 volume is aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquants Body and Soul: the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.