02460nam 22005892a 450 991049614880332120230828214802.00-520-91217-90-585-11137-510.1525/9780520912175(CKB)110989862154014(MH)002606263-1(SSID)ssj0000275084(PQKBManifestationID)12096568(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275084(PQKBWorkID)10330850(PQKB)10678754(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083849(DE-B1597)648704(DE-B1597)9780520912175(EXLCZ)9911098986215401419910816d1992 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe wrestler's body identity and ideology in North India /Joseph S. Alter[electronic resource]Berkeley, Calif. ;London University of California Pressc19921 online resource (xv, 305 p. )ill. ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-07697-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.WrestlingSocial aspectsIndiaWrestlingSocial aspectsIndiaRecreation & SportsHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCIndiaSocial life and customsWrestlingSocial aspectsWrestlingSocial aspectsRecreation & SportsSocial Sciences796.8/12/0954Alter Joseph S1006617DLCDLCBOOK9910496148803321The wrestler's body2862642UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress