Fighting Scholars

Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
Herausgeber: Sánchez García, Raúl; Spencer, Dale C.

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Produktbeschreibung

'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 different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc Wacquant's 'Body and Soul': the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780857283320
• ISBN-10: 0857283324
• Artikelnr.: 37229793

Autorenporträt

Raúl Sánchez García is associate professor in the Department of Theory, Organization and Recreation at the Universidad Europea de Madrid. Dale C. Spencer is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Manitoba. 

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors; Glossary; Chapter 1: Introduction: Carnal Ethnography as Path
to Embodied Knowledge - Raúl Sánchez García and Dale C. Spencer; Chapter 2:
Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter - Loïc
Wacquant; Chapter 3: In Search of a Martial Habitus: Identifying Core
Dispositions in Wing Chun and Taijiquan - David Brown and George Jennings;
Chapter 4: Each More Agile Than the Other: Mental and Physical
Enculturation in 'Capoeira Regional' - Sara Delamont and Neil Stephens;
Chapter 5: 'There Is No Try in Tae Kwon Do': Reflexive Body Techniques in
Action - Elizabeth Graham; Chapter 6: 'It Is About Your Body Recognizing
the Move and Automatically Doing It': Merleau-Ponty, Habit and Brazilian
Jiu-Jitsu - Bryan Hogeveen; Chapter 7: 'Do You Hit Girls?': Some Striking
Moments in the Career of a Male Martial Artist - Alex Channon; Chapter 8:
The Teacher's Blessing and the Withheld Hand: Two Vignettes of Somatic
Learning in South India's Indigenous Martial Art Kalarippayattu - Sara K.
Schneider; Chapter 9: White Men Don't Flow: Embodied Aesthetics of the
Fifty-Two Hand Blocks - Thomas Green; Chapter 10: Japanese Religions and
Kyudo (Japanese Archery): An Anthropological Perspective - Einat Bar-On
Cohen; Chapter 11: Taming the Habitus: The Gym and the Dojo as 'Civilizing
Workshops' - Raúl Sánchez García; Chapter 12: 'Authenticity', Muay Thai and
Habitus - Dale C. Spencer; Chapter 13: Conclusion: Present and Future Lines
of Research - Raúl Sánchez García and Dale C. Spencer; Epilogue: Homines in
Extremis: What Fighting Scholars Teach Us about Habitus - Loïc Wacquant;
References