The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in North India / / Joseph S. Alter [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Alter Joseph S
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 305 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 796.8/12/0954
• Soggetto topico: Wrestling - Social aspects - India; Recreation & Sports; Social Sciences
• Soggetto geografico: India Social life and customs
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The wrestler's body
• ISBN: 0-520-91217-9; 0-585-11137-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910496148803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II