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Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 305 pages. The Wrestler's Body 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.Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a…
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- Título The Wrestler's Body
- Autor Joseph S. Alter
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First Printing
- Páginas 332
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University of California Press, Bx-45
- Fecha de publicación 1992-08-03
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520076976 / 0520076974
- Peso 1.55 libras (0.70 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.32 x 6.3 x 1.08 pulgadas (23.67 x 16.00 x 2.74 cm)
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Temas
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Library of Congress subjects India - Social life and customs, Wrestling - Social aspects - India
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 91031560
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.812
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