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Body & Soul - Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
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Body & Soul - Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
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When French sociologist Loic 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."
This expanded anniversary edition features a new preface and
postface that take the reader behind the scenes and reveal the
"making of" this classic ethnography. Wacquant reflects on his path
to, and uses of, fieldwork based on apprenticeship. He traces the
genealogy and draws the anatomy of habitus and explicates how he
deployed it as method of inquiry. The postface retraces the trials
and tribulations of his gym mates in and out of the gym over the
past thirty years, and reflects on what they reveal about the
economics of prizefighting, masculinity, and the passion that binds
boxers to their craft. Body and 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. A subtle investigation and
provocative extension of habitus, this expanded anniversary will
intrige and excite students and scholars across the social sciences
and the humanities.
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