Loïc Wacquant 2004: Body and Soul. Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer. Oxford: Oxford University Press
L.G.A.J. Reinders (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
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Abstract
Body and Soul is a sociological and ethnographic treatise on the social art of boxing in the Woodlawn Boys Club, a boxing gym in the South Side of Chicago. The book sets out to translate the bodily and kinetic practice of boxing, its ‘carnal existence’, in academic writing. Wacquant claims that the ‘pugilistic art’ of boxing can only be apprehended in the action itself, the body being actively used as a research instrument and object of analysis. [...]