Embodying combat: How boxers make sense of their ‘conversations of gestures’

This essay offers an ethnography of the ‘conversations of gestures’ that occur between boxers during training fights or ‘sparring’. By showing how these situations are embodied, it elaborates a sociology of the senses and meaning as it relates to these ordeals. In addition to considering the boxers...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Ethnography 2019-12, Vol.20 (4), p.483-502
1. Verfasser:	Beauchez, Jérôme
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Body image Boxing Ethnography Habitus Human body Humanities and Social Sciences Reflexivity Social Anthropology and ethnology Socialization Sociology
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