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Book Title
Body & Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversa
Publication Date
2021-12-07
Pages
432
ISBN
9780190465698
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190465697
ISBN-13
9780190465698
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239807313

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
432 Pages
Publication Name
Body and Soul : Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition
Language
English
Subject
Boxing, General, Sociology / Social Theory, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Sports & Recreation, Social Science
Author
Loïc Wacquant
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2021-029463
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye... a model account of a personal, embodied sociology., "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye... a model account of a personal, embodied sociology." -- American Journal of Sociology "Loic Wacquant''s Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the body--its theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort." -- Contemporary Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis." -- Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." -- Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment." -- The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." -- Los Angeles Times "This remarkable and courageous book gives life to Pierre Bourdieu''s adage that we ''learn by body: A Frenchman in Chicago sets out to learn about the black ghetto but not through detached observation: he joins the local gym and labors to become a boxer for whom, as for his buddies, ''fighting is my life, my woman, my love.'' Though he yearns to become a pro, he never loses sight of the sociology in his quest. Bravo for sticking with science, for this book spells out a stunning lesson in the carnal sociology of where we are and what we are doing." -- Jerome Bruner, author of Making Stories "Body & Soul is a dazzling renewal of the endangered craft of narrative, participant sociology. Wacquant''s taut rendering of the tension between the haven of the gym and the engulfing ghetto forms the backdrop for an absorbing exploration of the opposition between the manly discipline of the gym and the short, nasty brutalities of the ring. The result is a truly unique and powerful document that successfully translates the gritty routines and grim dignities of social existence without destroying or demeaning its subject." -- Orlando Patterson, author of Rituals of Blood "Body & Soul is a gem, destined for a life of classics like Street Corner Society (though much fleshier and juicier and denser), studied over and over again as a pattern to follow, though defying the ability, imagination, and, indeed, humanity of the would-be followers. An act impossible to match. A poem in prose, a work of love and wisdom rolled into one: this is how ethnography should be written, were the ethnographers capable of writing like that." -- Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity "A truly exceptional, even historic, piece of research. Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written. personally impassioned and, on multiple levels-sociological theory, social policy, ethnographic methodology-an inspiring book. It gives a bittersweet appreciation of what young black men born in 20th-century urban American ghettos might have become on a larger scale. were they given not an easier route but a more challenging, institutionally honored and indigenously supported rite of passage to adulthood." -- Jack Katz, author of Seductions of Crime "With a sociological imagination inspired by Bourdieu and writing that is electric, Wacquant brings to life the pain, sweat, and discipline of boxing, as well as the vivid language, small triumphs, and gritty masculine camaraderie of those who devote themselves to it in rundown gyms on Chicago''s South Side. With respect and affection for those who mentored him, he takes us into a lifeworld that offers to some an alternative to the deadly streets of urban wastelands." -- Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye... a model account of a personal, embodied sociology." -- American Journal of Sociology "Loic Wacquant''s Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the bodyits theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort." -- Contemporary Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis." -- Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." -- Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment." -- The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." -- Los Angeles Times "This remarkable and courageous book gives life to Pierre Bourdieu''s adage that we ''learn by body: A Frenchman in Chicago sets out to learn about the black ghetto but not through detached observation: he joins the local gym and labors to become a boxer for whom, as for his buddies, ''fighting is my life, my woman, my love.'' Though he yearns to become a pro, he never loses sight of the sociology in his quest. Bravo for sticking with science, for this book spells out a stunning lesson in the carnal sociology of where we are and what we are doing." -- Jerome Bruner, author of Making Stories "Body & Soul is a dazzling renewal of the endangered craft of narrative, participant sociology. Wacquant''s taut rendering of the tension between the haven of the gym and the engulfing ghetto forms the backdrop for an absorbing exploration of the opposition between the manly discipline of the gym and the short, nasty brutalities of the ring. The result is a truly unique and powerful document that successfully translates the gritty routines and grim dignities of social existence without destroying or demeaning its subject." -- Orlando Patterson, author of Rituals of Blood "Body & Soul is a gem, destined for a life of classics like Street Corner Society (though much fleshier and juicier and denser), studied over and over again as a pattern to follow, though defying the ability, imagination, and, indeed, humanity of the would-be followers. An act impossible to match. A poem in prose, a work of love and wisdom rolled into one: this is how ethnography should be written, were the ethnographers capable of writing like that." -- Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity "A truly exceptional, even historic, piece of research. Brilliantly conceived, beautifully written. personally impassioned and, on multiple levels-sociological theory, social policy, ethnographic methodology-an inspiring book. It gives a bittersweet appreciation of what young black men born in 20th-century urban American ghettos might have become on a larger scale. were they given not an easier route but a more challenging, institutionally honored and indigenously supported rite of passage to adulthood." -- Jack Katz, author of Seductions of Crime "With a sociological imagination inspired by Bourdieu and writing that is electric, Wacquant brings to life the pain, sweat, and discipline of boxing, as well as the vivid language, small triumphs, and gritty masculine camaraderie of those who devote themselves to it in rundown gyms on Chicago''s South Side. With respect and affection for those who mentored him, he takes us into a lifeworld that offers to some an alternative to the deadly streets of urban wastelands." -- Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Veiled Sentiments
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
796.8309773/11
Table Of Content
PREFACE TO THE EXPANDED ANNIVERSARY EDITION: WHEN SOCIAL SCIENCE MEETS THE SWEET SCIENCEPROLOGUETHE STREET AND THE RINGAn Island of Order and Virtue"The Boys Who Beat the Street"A Scientifically Savage PracticeThe Social Logic of SparringAn Implicit and Collective PedagogyManaging Bodily CapitalFIGHT NIGHT AT THE STUDIO"You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up"Weigh-in at the Illinois State BuildingAn Anxious AfternoonWelcome to StudioPitiful PreliminariesStrong Beats Hannah by TKO in the FourthMake Way for the Exotic Dancers"You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'""BUSY" LOUIE AT THE GOLDEN GLOVESPOSTFACEFORGING THE PUGILISTIC HABITUS: REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING A PRIZEFIGHTERPathway to the ethnographic craftHabitus comes to the gymFor epistemic reflexivity: from flesh to textAppendix: Genealogy and anatomy of habitusTHE AFTERLIVES OF CHICAGO PRIZEFIGHTING ACROSS THREE DECADESWhat they became after the Woodlawn gym closedOn the social and symbolic structures of prizefightingBoxing life on the internet and death in a chicago ringPost scriptum: on pugilistic pietyLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSA NOTE ON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND TRANSCRIPTIONINDEX
Synopsis
When French sociologist Lo c Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in 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 alike. 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 updated edition features a new preface and postface that elaborate upon Bourdieu's theory of habitus, demonstrating the ways in which habitus anchors both the method and theory in the book and to provide a geneaology of the concept. Arguably the best investigation of habitus in the field of sociology, Body and Soul continues to be a valuable resource for students and scholars of the social sciences., When French sociologist Loïc 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., Loïc Wacquant's Body and Soul melds Pierre Bourdieu's signal concept of habitus with Wacquant's ethnographic observations as an amateur boxer at a gym in Chicago's South Side. This updated edition features a new preface and postface that elaborate upon Bourdieu's theory of habitus, demonstrating the ways in which habitus anchors both the method and theory in the book and to provide a geneaology of the concept., When French sociologist Loïc 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.
LC Classification Number
GV1136.8W3213 2016

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