Author

Publication

2003-11-14 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

72,000 words, Guess

Page Count

288 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100195168356
  • ISBN-139780195168358
  • Goodreads3431583
  • Open LibraryOL7390839M

First Sentence

Just as one cannot understand what an instituted religion such as Catholicism is without studying in detail the structure and functioning of the organization that supports it, in this case the Roman Church, one cannot elucidate the meaning and roots of boxing in contemporary American society-at least in the lower regions of social space, where it continues to defy an extinction periodically announced as its imminent and inevitable fate-without canvassing the fabric of the social and symbolic relations woven in and around the training gym, the hub and hidden engine of the pugilistic universe.

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