'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 a...

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Other Authors:	Spencer, Dale (Editor), Sánchez García, Raúl (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Anthem Press 2014
Subjects:	Kampfsport Anthropologie Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	Volltext
Summary:	'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. [NP] 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 Loïc Wacquant's 'Body and Soul': the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Feb 2016)
Physical Description:	1 online resource
ISBN:	9780857283320 9780857283429