Author

Publication

2004 - Oxford University Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

68,500 words, Guess

Page Count

274 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
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Classifications

  • LCCGV1136.8 .W3213 2004

Alternate Titles

  • Body and soul

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

BoxingSportsInner citiesSocial aspectsUrban SociologySociology, urbanAnthropological aspects

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