Fighting scholars : habitus and ethnographies of martial arts and combat sports /
'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 Wacquan...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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London :
Anthem Press
2013.
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| Edice: | Key issues in modern sociology.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1gxpddq |
Obsah:
- Contributors
- Glossary
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Carnal Ethnography as Path to Embodied Knowledge / Raúl Sáncliez García, 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, George Jennings
- Chapter 4. Each More Agile Than the Other: Mental and Physical Enculturation in Capoeira Regional / Sara Delamont, 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 / Dak C. Spencer
- Chapter 13. Conclusion: Present and Future Lines of Research / Raúl Sánchez García, Dale C. Spencer
- Epilogue: Homines in Extremis: What Fighting Scholars Teach Us about Habitus / Loïc Wacquant
- References.