À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop
This paper investigates attempts by jockeys and apprentice jockeys to regulate their weight for work purposes. Jockeys race at a pre-determined weight, based on the horse’s previous performance, not on their weight categories. As a result, they often have to race well below their healthy weight, mea...
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| description | This paper investigates attempts by jockeys and apprentice jockeys to regulate their weight for work purposes. Jockeys race at a pre-determined weight, based on the horse’s previous performance, not on their weight categories. As a result, they often have to race well below their healthy weight, meaning they must lose weight brutally, unsupervised. Indeed, neither training academies nor doctors monitor these weight losses, which remain taboo in the world of horse racing. This paper examines the experimental techniques used by jockeys to lose weight quickly and sharply, and analyses the effects of this weight management on the professional careers and social trajectories of these young working-class men as well as the effects of their trajectories on their weight management. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9162996d670843c5865dab8885568b1b2024-02-14T14:40:39ZfraAssociation Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la SantéAnthropologie & Santé2111-50281810.4000/anthropologiesante.5002À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galopSabrina Nouiri-MangoldThis paper investigates attempts by jockeys and apprentice jockeys to regulate their weight for work purposes. Jockeys race at a pre-determined weight, based on the horse’s previous performance, not on their weight categories. As a result, they often have to race well below their healthy weight, meaning they must lose weight brutally, unsupervised. Indeed, neither training academies nor doctors monitor these weight losses, which remain taboo in the world of horse racing. This paper examines the experimental techniques used by jockeys to lose weight quickly and sharply, and analyses the effects of this weight management on the professional careers and social trajectories of these young working-class men as well as the effects of their trajectories on their weight management.https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/5002dietself-medicationbodyweighthorse racing |
| spellingShingle | Sabrina Nouiri-Mangold À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop Anthropologie & Santé diet self-medication body weight horse racing |
| title | À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop |
| title_full | À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop |
| title_fullStr | À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop |
| title_full_unstemmed | À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop |
| title_short | À cheval sur le poids. Ethnographie d’un bricolage corporel à visée professionnelle : le cas des jockeys de galop |
| title_sort | a cheval sur le poids ethnographie d un bricolage corporel a visee professionnelle le cas des jockeys de galop |
| topic | diet self-medication body weight horse racing |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/5002 |
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