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The Wrestler's Body

by Alter Joseph S.
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780520076976
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Sports and Physical Fitness
  • Publisher: California UP
  • Publisher Imprint: California
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 305
  • Original Price: USD 68.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 700 grams

Tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. Using the insights of anthropology, this title presents ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.

Joseph S. Alter grew up in North India and was himself a youthful member of an akhara. He was educated at Woodstock School in India and at Wesleyan University and the University of California, Berkeley.

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