Conditioning Weapons: Ethnography of the Practice of Martial Arts Training

Drawing on the inspiring work by Wacquant about apprenticeship in boxing, I present data generated from a five-year ethnographic study of one Wushu Kung Fu Association in Italy. Drawing on a Bourdieusian version of theories of social practice, the aim is to investigate in depth the relationship betw...

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Main Author: Lorenzo Domaneschi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Societies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/8/3/80