Author: Alter, Joseph S.
Hardback; Book; 15 B&w Photographs, 2 Illustrations
330 pages
Published: August 1992
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0520076974
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Although the wrestlers of North India are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, this is a study that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology.