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Autore |
Alter Joseph S |
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Titolo |
The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in North India / / Joseph S. Alter [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c1992 |
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ISBN |
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0-520-91217-9 |
0-585-11137-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 305 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Wrestling - Social aspects - India |
Recreation & Sports |
Social Sciences |
India Social life and customs |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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