Reviews
"[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology " Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."-- Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force ...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."-- Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment."-- The Ring: The Bible of Boxing " Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."-- Los Angeles Times "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology "...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort."-- Contemporary Sociology, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology, "Body and Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces, ..".a book that will enliven its readers, acquaint them with a whole world of ambition, purpose, and vulnerability, and live in their minds long thereafter.", "Here is tough-minded social realism standing against a popular neoromanticism, each essential and unavoidable in an ethnography that poses as literature of public truth. Through this clash emerges a model account of a personal, emobodied sociology, depicting how pain and effort becomeintegral to, and constitutive of, the establishment of tightly held group bonds."--Gary Alan Fine, American Journal of Sociology, "Body and Soul is a closely observed and ultimately moving tour through an outpost of a vanishing world, where boxing's codes of masculine honor and monastic self-discipline struggle to overcome the familiar inner-city seductions of drugs, gangs and street crime."--The Washington Post, "Body and Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."--Los Angeles Times, "ÝR¨eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces "ÝA¨ sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."--Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment."--The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."--Los Angeles Times, "...Body and Soul brings to boxing literature a fresh, gritty and remarkably readable voice. Pound for pound, Wacquant appears to be ready to go the distance with big-name authors in the canon -- even such heavies as Norman Mailer and the late George Plimpton." --San FranciscoChronicle, "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."--Qualitative Sociology, "A remarkable, even amazing, sociological study, probably one of the most impressive of its type since Charles Keil's Urban Blues, about blues life and performance in Chicago in the 1960s, or Elliot Liebow's Talley's Corner, about black street-corner men. The sheer mass of detail about thelife and trade of boxing in the context of black inner-city life, the richness of its characters, the drive of the narrative... are simply stunning, making for compelling, absorbing reading."--Gerald Early, The Chicago Tribune, "Body and Soul is a gem, destined for a life of classics like StreetCorner Society (though much fleshier and juicier and denser), studied over andover again as a pattern to follow, though defying the ability, imagination and,indeed, humanity of the would-be followers. An act impossible to match. A poemin prose, a work of love and wisdom rolled into one: this is how ethnographyshould be written, were the ethnographers capable of writing like that."--Zygmunt Bauman, author of Liquid Modernity, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..." --American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis." --Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." --Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment." --The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." --Los Angeles Times "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..." --American Journal of Sociology "...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort." --Contemporary Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." --Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment." --The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." --Los Angeles Times "Loic Wacquant's Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the body---its theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations." --Contemporary Sociology, "As serious about the sweet science of boxing as Wacquant is practiced in the craft of sociology, Body and Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study ofsport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."--Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment."--The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."--Los Angeles Times, "Body and Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and shouldcertainly earn a place in the canon of literature in thering."--L.A.Times, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..." --American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis." --Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." --Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment." --The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." --Los Angeles Times "...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort." --Contemporary Sociology "Loic Wacquant's Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the body---its theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations." --Contemporary Sociology, "... a well-written, insightful and above all fascinating account whichdraws the reader in, combining sociological insight with good stories aboutstrong characters.... this is a great book, which I recommend to anybody witheven a vague interest in embodiment, sport, or boxing."--The SociologicalReview, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."--American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soulnot only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces "[A] sociologicaltour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."--Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment."--The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soulwill pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."--Los Angeles Times "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."--American Journal of Sociology "...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort."--Contemporary Sociology, "Wacquant's finest writing bobs and weaves throughout the notebook excerpts reproduced in Body and Soul; here he displays his pitch-perfect ear for the cunning verbal stylings of his gym mates. The intensely personal entries throughout the book were often captured in the intense afterglow ofthe author's workouts in the ring and are wrought with all the grace of a novelist." --San Francisco Chronicle, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."--Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment."--The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."--Los Angeles Times "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..."-- American Journal of Sociology "...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort."--Contemporary Sociology "Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces "[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions."--Qualitative Sociology "A fresh and authoritative treatment."--The Ring: The Bible of Boxing "Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring."--Los Angeles Times "Loic Wacquant's Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the body---its theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations." --Contemporary Sociology, "[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..." --American Journal of Sociology"Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis." --Social Forces"[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." --Qualitative Sociology"A fresh and authoritative treatment." --The Ring: The Bible of Boxing"Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." --Los Angeles Times"[R]eveals a remarkable ethnographic and theatrical eye...a model account of a personal, embodied sociology..." --American Journal of Sociology"...a provocative, exhilarating, maddening, and profoundly idiosyncratic effort." --Contemporary Sociology"Body & Soul not only sets a new standard for scholarly research and writing on sport. It is a virtuoso performance that could--if properly read and disseminated and emulated--put the study of sport at the center of all sociological theorizing and analysis."--Social Forces"[A] sociological tour de force...sure to be widely used as an exemplar of how to conduct participant observation research.... It is packed with fruitful conceptual and theoretical discussions." --Qualitative Sociology"A fresh and authoritative treatment." --The Ring: The Bible of Boxing"Body & Soul will pull you into the deep rhythms of boxing and should certainly earn a place in the canon of literature in the ring." --Los Angeles Times"Loic Wacquant's Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer is perhaps the best yet sociology of the body---its theorizing is less explicit than is the acuteness of the observations." --Contemporary Sociology
