The wrestler's body :identity and ideology in north India
- 作者: Alter, Joseph S.
- 出版: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1992.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (xv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
- 標題: Social Sciences. , India , SPORTS & RECREATION , Manners and customs. , Social aspects , Recreation & Sports. , Lutte Aspect social -- Inde. , Mœurs et coutumes. , SPORTS & RECREATION Wrestling. , Lutte , Wrestling. , Aspect social , Inde , Social aspects. , Social life and customs. , Electronic books. , Wrestling Social aspects. , Wrestling Social aspects -- India. , Wrestling , India Social life and customs. , India. , Inde Mœurs et coutumes.
- ISBN: 0520076974 , 9780520076976
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- 附註: 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.
- 摘要: 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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- 系統號: 005289162
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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. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline.
來源: Google Book
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