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The Wrestlers Body: Identity and Idelology in North India
Joseph S. Alter
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| #4237085 in Books | 1999-02-24 | Original language:English | 10.04 x6.50 x.0l,.0 | File type: PDF | 322 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| This is an excellent book and I found it very interesting reading|By Brenda E T Beck, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto|This is an excellent book and I found it very interesting reading. The text moves back and forth between detailed descriptions of actual wrestling studio locations (akharas) and their local activities (including rituals) and
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.
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