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The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in north India / Joseph S. Alter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520912175
  • 0520912179
  • 0585111375
  • 9780585111377
  • 0520076974
  • 9780520076976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Wrestler's body.DDC classification:
  • 796.8/12/0954 20
LOC classification:
  • GV1198.71.A2 A45 1992eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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