The wrestler's body :
Alter, Joseph S.
The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in north India / Joseph S. Alter. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
Search and Research -- The Akhara: Where Earth Is Turned Into Gold -- Gurus and Chelas: The Alchemy of Discipleship -- The Patron and the Wrestler -- The Discipline of the Wrestler's Body -- Nag Panchami: Snakes, Sex, and Semen -- Wrestling Tournaments and the Body's Recreation -- Hanuman: Shakti, Bhakti, and Brahmacharya -- The Sannyasi and the Wrestler -- Utopian Somatics and Nationalist Discourse -- The Individual Re-Formed.
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.
English.
9780520912175 0520912179 0585111375 9780585111377 0520076974 9780520076976
Wrestling--Social aspects--India.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Wrestling.
Manners and customs.
Wrestling--Social aspects.
Recreation & Sports.
Social Sciences.
India--Social life and customs.
India.
Wrestling India
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
GV1198.71.A2 / A45 1992eb
796.8/12/0954
The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in north India / Joseph S. Alter. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992. - 1 online resource (xv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index.
Search and Research -- The Akhara: Where Earth Is Turned Into Gold -- Gurus and Chelas: The Alchemy of Discipleship -- The Patron and the Wrestler -- The Discipline of the Wrestler's Body -- Nag Panchami: Snakes, Sex, and Semen -- Wrestling Tournaments and the Body's Recreation -- Hanuman: Shakti, Bhakti, and Brahmacharya -- The Sannyasi and the Wrestler -- Utopian Somatics and Nationalist Discourse -- The Individual Re-Formed.
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.
English.
9780520912175 0520912179 0585111375 9780585111377 0520076974 9780520076976
Wrestling--Social aspects--India.
SPORTS & RECREATION--Wrestling.
Manners and customs.
Wrestling--Social aspects.
Recreation & Sports.
Social Sciences.
India--Social life and customs.
India.
Wrestling India
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
GV1198.71.A2 / A45 1992eb
796.8/12/0954