Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice BoxerOxford University Press, 2006 - 274 pagina's When French sociologist Lo c 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 fleshes out Pierre Bourdieu's signal concept of habitus, deepening our theoretical grasp of human practice. And he 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 at century's end. |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
ain't amateur Anthony Ashante back room body bout boxers boxing gym Butch champion Chicago Chicago Golden Gloves City corner Curtis Curtis's cutman d'gym damn DeeDee DeeDee's doin Eddie Émile Durkheim eyes face feel Field notes fight fighters fists front ghetto girl goin Golden Gloves gonna gotta guys hand Hannah hard head Jack Cowen Jeb Garney Jimmy Kitchen keep Keith Kitchen knocked Larry Holmes left hook Loïc Wacquant look Lorenzo lotta Louie manager Marcel Mauss Mike Tyson move neighborhood never nuthin Okay old coach one's opponent Park Pierre Bourdieu prizefighting professional boxers pugilistic punches referee ring ropes round shadowboxing slip Smithie social sociology sparring session speed bag Sugar Ray Leonard tell tha's tickets tonight trainer turn Tyson uppercut voice wanna weigh-in who's Woodlawn Boys Club workout Yeah