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Autore: | Spencer Dale C. <1979-> |
Titolo: | Ultimate fighting and embodiment : violence, gender, and mixed martial arts / / Dale C. Spencer |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina: | 796.815/5 |
Soggetto topico: | Mixed martial arts - Social aspects |
Mixed martial arts - Psychological aspects | |
Sports - Sex differences | |
Sports - Social aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Phenomenology and Bodies; 3. Time, Space, and Sense of Fighting; 4. Difference and Bodies; 5. Being an MMA Fighter; 6. Habit(us), Body Techniques, and Body Callusing; 7. Narratives of Despair, Loss, and Failure: Pain, Injury, and Masculinities; 8. Emotions and Violence; 9. Homosociality, (Homo)eroticism, and Dueling Practice; 10. Conclusion; About the Biography; Glossary of Terms; Appendix: The Senses and Ethnographic Research; Notes; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresses the cultural scripts of masculinity in popular culture. Based on four years of participant observation in a local MMA club and in-depth interviews with amateur and professional MMA fighters, Spencer documents fighters' training regimes and the meanings they attach to participation in the sport. Dr |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ultimate fighting and embodiment |
ISBN: | 1-136-49916-4 |
0-203-14291-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451720803321 |
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