Habitus as topic and tool: Reflections on becoming a prizefighter

Ethnographies Revisited: Constructing Theory in the Field

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 137-151

  Wacquant, Loïc ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203876503     Document Type: Chapter

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