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Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment : Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it transgresse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spencer, Dale C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2012.
Colección:Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front Cover; Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Phenomenology and Bodies; 3. Time, Space, and Sense of Fighting; 4. Difference and Bodies; 5. Being an MMA Fighter; 6. Habit(us), Body Techniques, and Body Callusing; 7. Narratives of Despair, Loss, and Failure: Pain, Injury, and Masculinities; 8. Emotions and Violence; 9. Homosociality, (Homo)eroticism, and Dueling Practice; 10. Conclusion; About the Biography; Glossary of Terms; Appendix: The Senses and Ethnographic Research; Notes; References; Index. 
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