The Wrestler's Body by Joseph S. Alter

The Wrestler's Body

Joseph S. Alter

332 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology sports
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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. Usi...

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