Fighting Scholars : Habitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports
Raúl Sánchez. García
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | London : Anthem press , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (234 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Fighting Scholars_9780857283320; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; GLOSSARY; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: CARNAL ETHNOGRAPHY AS PATH TO EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE; Bu Over Bun; Bun Over Bu; Body techniques; Gender; Ethnicity/race; Religion/transformation of the self; Violence/pain; Overview of the Volume; Notes; Chapter 2 HABITUS AS TOPIC AND TOOL: REFLECTIONS ON BECOMING A PRIZEFIGHTER; A Pathway to the Ethnographic Craft; Habitus Comes to the Gym; From Guts to Paper; Chapter 3 IN SEARCH OF A MARTIAL HABITUS: IDENTIFYING CORE DISPOSITIONS IN WING CHUN AND TAIJIQUAN. - Bourdieu, Wacquant and Our FieldworkIndividual Habitus: Researchers and Capoeiristas; Conclusions; Notes; Chapter 5 'THERE IS NO TRY IN TAE KWON DO': REFLEXIVE BODY TECHNIQUES IN ACTION; Introduction; Habitus and Reflexive Body Techniques; The Study: Context and Methodology; 'There Is No Try in Tae Kwon Do'; The transition from thinking to doing; The TKD Technician Habitus; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6 'IT IS ABOUT YOUR BODY RECOGNIZING THE MOVE AND AUTOMATICALLY DOING IT': MERLEAU - PONTY, HABIT AND BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU; Introduction; Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Game of Human Chess. - Chapter 8 THE TEACHER'S BLESSING AND THE WITHELD HAND: TWO VIGNETTES OF SOMATIC LEARNING IN SOUTH INDIA'S INDIGENOUS MARTIAL ART KALARIPPAYATTUIntroduction; The Role of the Guru in the Transmission of Knowledge in Kalarippayattu; When and What the Teacher Teaches Through Touch: Two Bookending Vignettes; Vignette 1 − The teacher's blessing; Vignette 2 − The withheld hand; Ethnography as The Marriage of Toby's Idea of Angela and Toby's Idea of Angela's Idea of Toby; Corporal Teaching in Kerala; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9 WHITE MEN DON'T FLOW: EMBODIED AESTHETICS OF THE FIFTY-TWO HAND BLOCKS. - Forging the Grappler's BodyOriented to a Future to Come: Forging a Grappler's Corporeal Schema; Sweep without Sweeping; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7 'DO YOU HIT GIRLS?': SOME STRIKING MOMENTS IN THE CAREER OF A MALE MARTIAL ARTIST; Introduction: 'So... Do You Hit Girls?'; The Research; Refusing to Hit: Masculine Habitus, 'Holding Back' and Women's Frustration; Kick or be Kicked: How Women Force Men to Reckon with Them on the Mat; Concluding Thoughts: Theorizing Habitus, Subversion and Reflexivity in Martial Arts; Notes. - Introduction. - Introduction: The Problem of the Martial HabitusThe Martial Habitus as a Continuum of Interlaced Dispositions; Dispositions as Delimited Field Specific and General Continua; Methodological Strategy; The Combat Efficacy-Efficiency Disposition; The Practice-Perfection-Mastery Disposition; The Body-Self-Environment Awareness Disposition; Concluding Comments; Note; Chapter 4 EACH MORE AGILE THAN THE OTHER: MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ENCULTURATION IN CAPOEIRA REGIONAL; Introduction; Capoeira Explained; Agile Methods for an Agile Topic?; Back to the Class: Work on the Waist. - 'Fighting Scholars' presents insightful ethnographic research on a range of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a central theme of analysis, 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.
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| ISBN | 9780857283320
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