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. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083466
• ISBN-10: 1783083468
• Artikelnr.: 41372549

Autorenporträt

Edited by Raúl Sánchez García and Dale C. Spencer

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