Body & Soul

Body & Soul

The ethnographic diary of a boxing apprentice Category : Biography Loïc Wacquant F0007 : Mémoires sociales Size : 12 x 21 cm/ Paper Cover 304 pages Agone ISBN : 9782748900118 / 20 € Release date : Apr 25, 14 Rights available except China, England, USA, Mexico

This is a book which combines both sociological analysis and literary evocation, the accuracy of ethnographic observation as well as the fervor of an almost physical involvement. It introduces the reader to the daily universe of the Chicago boxers, thus contributing to the sociology of the body and the ethnology of that living "negative" of America, namely the black ghetto. Loïc Wacquant is a professor at the UC Berkeley university and a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie européenne.