The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in north India /
Joseph S. Alter.
Bok Engelsk 1992 · Electronic books
Utgitt | Berkeley, Calif. ; London : : University of California Press, , c1992.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (xv, 305 p. ) : ill. ;
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Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - This book tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.
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Emner | India - Social life and customs
Wrestling - Social aspects - India Bryting Identitet Vis mer... Ideologier
Nord-India Recreation & Sports Social Sciences Tradisjoner bryting nord india banares identitet antropologi ideologiuttar pra desh |
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ISBN | 0520076974
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