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The Wrestlers Body: Identity and Idelology in North India
The Wrestlers Body Identity and Idelology in North India
Author: Joseph S. Alter
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 physiq...  more »
ISBN-13: 9788121507998
ISBN-10: 8121507995
Publication Date: 2/24/1999
Pages: 322
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Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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