16%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
Loïc Wacquant
€ 31.99
€ 26.91
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; JHBS; JHMP; WSTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. 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. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer dissects the making of prizefighters and supplies a model for a "carnal sociology" capable of capturing "the ... Read more
When French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. 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. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer dissects the making of prizefighters and supplies a model for a "carnal sociology" capable of capturing "the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195305623
SKU
V9780195305623
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99
About Loïc Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he is the author of numerous works on urban marginality, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, and social theory, translated in some dozen languages. He is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography.
Reviews for Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
"[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."
American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could
if properly read and disseminated and emulated
put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."
Social ... Read more
American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could
if properly read and disseminated and emulated
put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."
Social ... Read more