Body and Soul Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

Name: Body and Soul Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer
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ISBN: 9780195305623

ISBN-10: 0195305620

ISBN-13: 9780195305623

Edition: 2006

Authors: Loï¿½c Wacquant

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When French sociologist Loc 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 thisexperimental 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 taste and ache of action."Body &…

Book details

List price: $27.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



The Taste and Ache of Action: Preface to the U.S. Edition


Prologue


The Street and the Ring


An Island of Order and Virtue


"The Boys Who Beat The Street"


A Scientifically Savage Practice


The Social Logic of Sparring


An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy


Managing Bodily Capital


Fight Night at Studio 104


"You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up"


Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building


An Anxious Afternoon


Welcome to Studio 104


Pitiful Preliminaries


Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth


Make Way for the Exotic Dancers


"You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'"


"Busy" Louie at the Golden Gloves


List of Illustrations


A Note on Acknowledgments and Transcription


Index