Body and Soul

Loïc Wacquant''s Body and Soul melds Pierre Bourdieu''s signal concept of habitus with Wacquant''s ethnographic observations as an amateur boxer at a gym in Chicago''s South Side. This updated edition features a new preface and postface that elaborate upon Bourdieu''s theory of habitus, demonstrating the ways in which habitus anchors both the method and theory in the book and to provide a geneaology of the concept.