The prizefighter's three bodies

Ethnos

Volumn 63, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 325-352

  Wacquant, Loïc ^a  

^a l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (United States)

Author keywords

Black American ghetto; Body; Culture of the self; Desire; Habitus; Masculinity; Morality; Sacrifice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84933477153     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141844.1998.9981579     Document Type: Article

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