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Body & soul : notebooks of an apprentice boxer /

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In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wacquant, Loïc J. D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translated from the French.
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Boxing > Social aspects > Illinois > Chicago.
Sports > Anthropological aspects > United States.
Inner cities > United States.
Sociology, Urban > United States.
Masculinity in popular culture > United States.
Boxe > Aspect social > Illinois > Chicago.
Sports > Aspect anthropologique > États-Unis.
Sociologie urbaine > États-Unis.
Masculinité dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Ethnic Studies.
Sociology.
Boxing > Social aspects
Inner cities
Masculinity in popular culture
Sociology, Urban
Sports > Anthropological aspects
Illinois > Chicago
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:In the late 1980s Wacquant, a white, French-born, French and American sociology graduate student, entered the Woodlawn gym on 63rd Street in Chicago and began training as a boxer. This text invites us to follow Wacquant's immersion into the everyday world of Chicago's boxers.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
ISBN:9780199726417
0199726418