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9780195305623

Body & Soul Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer

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    9780195305623

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    0195305620

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-11-23
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

When French sociologist Loic Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases of the pugilist's strenuous preparation, from shadow-boxing drills to sparring to fighting in the Golden Gloves tournament. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer fleshes out Pierre Bourdieu's signal concept of habitus, deepening our theoretical grasp of human practice. And he supplies a model for a "carnal sociology" capable of capturing "the taste and ache of action." Body & Soul marries the analytic rigor of the sociologist with the stylistic grace of the novelist to offer a compelling portrait of a bodily craft and of life and labor in the black American ghetto at century's end.

Author Biography


Loic Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie europeenne, Paris. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, he is the author of numerous works on urban marginality, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, and social theory, translated in some dozen languages. He is a co-founder and editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography.

Table of Contents

The Taste and Ache of Action vii
Prologue 3(10)
The Street and the Ring
13(138)
An Island of Order and Virtue
17(24)
``The Boys Who Beat The Street''
41(17)
A Scientifically Savage Practice
58(19)
The Social Logic of Sparring
77(22)
An Implicit and Collective Pedagogy
99(28)
Managing Bodily Capital
127(24)
Fight Night at Studio 104
151(84)
``You Scared I Might Mess Up `Cause You Done Messed Up''
152(6)
Weigh-in at the Illinois State Building
158(13)
An Anxious Afternoon
171(9)
Welcome to Studio 104
180(12)
Pitiful Preliminaries
192(16)
Strong Beats Hannah by TKO in the Fourth
208(12)
Make Way for the Exotic Dancers
220(6)
``You Stop Two More Guys and I'll Stop Drinkin'''
226(9)
``Busy'' Louie at the Golden Gloves 235(22)
List of Illustrations 257(6)
A Note on Acknowledgments and Transcription 263(4)
Index 267

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