Body & soul : notebooks of an apprentice boxer /
In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2004
Oxford ; New York : 2004 Oxford ; New York : 2006, ©2004 Oxford ; New York : 2004 |
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| Summary: | In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers When French sociologist Loic 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 supplies a model for a "carnal sociology" capable of capturing "the taste and ache of action." Body & Soul marries the analytic rigor of the sociologist with the stylistic grace of the novelist to offer a compelling portrait of a bodily craft and of life and labor in the black American ghetto, but also a fascinating tale of personal transformation and social transcendence |
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| Item Description: | Includes index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm xiv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0195168356 (alk. paper) 0195168356 (cloth) 0195168356 0195305620 (pbk.) 9780195168358 (alk. paper) 9780195168358 9780195305623 (pbk.) 9781429402804 (electronic bk.) |