| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-294) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wrestling -- Social aspects -- India.
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Wrestling -- Social aspects. |
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India. |
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Wrestling. |
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India -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alter, Joseph S. Wrestler's body. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992 0520076974 (DLC) 91031560 (OCoLC)24375966 |
| ISBN |
9780520912175 (electronic book) |
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0520912179 (electronic book) |
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0585111375 (electronic book) |
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9780585111377 (electronic book) |
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0520076974 (alkaline paper) |
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9780520076976 (alkaline paper) |
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