Body & Soul
Subtitle: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780195305623
First sentence: Just as one cannot understand what an instituted religion such as Catholicism is without studying in detail the structure and functioning of the organization that supports it, in this case the Roman Church, one cannot elucidate the meaning and roots of boxing in contemporary American society-at least in the lower regions of social space, where it continues to defy an extinction periodically announced as its imminent and inevitable fate-without canvassing the fabric of the social and symbolic relations woven in and around the training gym, the hub and hidden engine of the pugilistic universe.