Epiphanies of embodiment: Injury, identity and the balletic body

Qualitative Research

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 311-337

  Wainwright, Steven P ^a   Turner, Bryan S ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ballet; body; culture; embodiment; ethnography; identity; injury; self

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144321773     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794104047232     Document Type: Article

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