TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alter,Joseph S.
TI  - The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India 
SN  - 9780520912175
AV  - GV1198.71.A2 A45 1992eb
U1  - 796.8/12/0954 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Wrestling
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - India
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - fast
KW  - Recreation & Sports
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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