Fighting Scholars - Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports (Hardcover)

'Fighting Scholars' offers the first book-length overview of the ethnographic study of martial arts and combat sports. The book's main claim is that such activities represent privileged grounds to access different social dimensions, such as emotion, violence, pain, gender, ethnicity and religion. In order to explore these dimensions, the concept of 'habitus' is presented prominently as an epistemic remedy for the academic distant gaze of the effaced academic body. The book's most innovative features are its empirical focus and theoretical orientation. While ethnographic research is a widespread and popular approach within the social sciences, combat sports and martial arts have yet to be sufficiently interrogated from an ethnographic standpoint. The different contributions of this volume are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loic Wacquant's 'Body and Soul': the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body.

General

Imprint:	Anthem Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Key Issues in Modern Sociology
Release date:	September 2013
First published:	September 2013
Editors:	Raul Sanchez Garcia • Dale C. Spencer
Dimensions:	229 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	234
ISBN-13:	978-0-85728-332-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Leisure Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Oriental martial arts > General
LSN:	0-85728-332-4
Barcode:	9780857283320

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