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Author:   Loïc Wacquant (Professor of Sociology, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 12.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.10cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9780195305623

ISBN 10:   0195305620
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   03 May 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"The Taste and Ache of Action Preface to the U.S. Edition Prologue The Street and the Ring An Island of Order and Virtue ""The Boys Who Beat the Street"" A Scientifically Savage Practice The Social Logic of Sparring An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy Managing Bodily Capital Fight Night at Studio 104 ""You Scared I Might Mess Up 'Cause You Done Messed Up"" Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building An Anxious Afternoon Welcome to Studio 104 Pitiful Preliminaries Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth Make Way for the Exotic Dancers ""You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'"" ""Busy"" Louie at the Golden Gloves List of Illustrations A Note on Acknowledgments and Transcription Index"

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[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology... -- American Journal of Sociology<br> 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<br> [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<br> A fresh and authoritative treatment. --The Ring: The Bible of Boxing<br> 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<br> [R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology... -- American Journal of Sociology<br> .,. a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort. --Contemporary Sociology<br>

Author Information

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he is the author of numerous works on urban marginality, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, and social theory, translated in some dozen languages. He is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography.

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