Author: CRICKETERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Cricketer's Handbook ... By the Author of “Training for Pedestrianism and Wrestling,” “British Boxing,” Etc
Author: CRICKETERGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Cricketer's Handbook
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
The Wrestler's Body
Author: Joseph S. AlterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520912175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline.
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Author: Henry Downes MilesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boxing
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The Sportsman's magazine of life in London and the country, ed., by Miles's Boy
Author: Miles's Boy (pseud)Live Stock Journal
Author: Watching the English
Author: Kate FoxPublisher: Nicholas Brealey
ISBN: 1857889177
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Updated, with new research and over 100 revisions Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character - features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society.
Wrestling and Wrestlers
Author: Sidney GilpinPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
'Wrestling and Wrestlers' is an in-depth collection of profiles about celebrated athletes of Northern Wrestling Ring. The book also introduces readers to the history of wrestling as a sport, tracing it back from the Ancient Greek traditions all the way up to wrestling in Japan, India, Turkey, England, Scotland, Ireland, Cumberland, and Westmorland. The authors, Sidney Gilpin and Jacob Robinson, take readers on a journey through time, providing detailed accounts of famous wrestling matches and the competitors who made them unforgettable. Whether you're a wrestling fan or a history buff, 'Wrestling and Wrestlers' is an exciting and informative read that is sure to inspire.