{"product_id":"body-soul-notebooks-of-an-apprentice-boxer-expanded-anniversary-edition-paperback","title":"Body \u0026 Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer, Expanded Anniversary Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLoïc Wacquant\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen French sociologist Loïc Wacquant signed up at a boxing gym in a black neighborhood of Chicago's South Side, he had never contemplated getting close to a ring, let alone climbing into it. Yet for three years he immersed himself among local fighters, amateur and professional. He learned the Sweet science of bruising, participating in all phases of the pugilist's strenuous preparation, from shadow-boxing drills to sparring to fighting in the Golden Gloves tournament. In this experimental ethnography of incandescent intensity, the scholar-turned-boxer fleshes out Pierre Bourdieu's signal concept of \u003cem\u003ehabitus\u003c\/em\u003e, deepening our theoretical grasp of human practice. And he supplies a model for a \"carnal sociology\" capable of capturing \"the taste and ache of action.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis expanded anniversary edition features a new preface and postface that take the reader behind the scenes and reveal the \"making of\" this classic ethnography. Wacquant reflects on his path to, and uses of, fieldwork based on apprenticeship. He traces the genealogy and draws the anatomy of habitus and explicates how he deployed it as method of inquiry. The postface retraces the trials and tribulations of his gym mates in and out of the gym over the past thirty years, and reflects on what they reveal about the economics of prizefighting, masculinity, and the passion that binds boxers to their craft. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBody and Soul\u003c\/em\u003e marries the analytic rigor of the sociologist with the stylistic grace of the novelist to offer a compelling portrait of a bodily craft and of life and labor in the black American ghetto at century's end. A subtle investigation and provocative extension of habitus, this expanded anniversary will intrige and excite students and scholars across the social sciences and the humanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLoïc Wacquant\u003c\/strong\u003e Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris. A McArthur Prize winner, his research interests include comparative urban marginality, the penal state, embodiment and social theory. His books have been translated in twenty languages and include \u003cem\u003eUrban Outcasts\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003ePunishing the Poor\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), and \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of the \"Underclass\"\u003c\/em\u003e (2021).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.11 x 8.24 x 5.56 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254959005798,"sku":"9780190465698","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/c0MxQkZLRUl0S28vWmVlYzBGdjVUdz09.webp?v=1773632965","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/body-soul-notebooks-of-an-apprentice-boxer-expanded-anniversary-edition-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}