Overview
- The first and only systematic overview of research on Mixed Martial Arts
- The book links neophenomenology to ethnomethodology and praxeology
- Methodically and analytically, the book surpasses existing studies on martial arts
Part of the book series: Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology (BPCP)
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Michael Staack’s multi-year ethnography is the first and only comprehensive social-scientific analysis of the combat sport ‘Mixed Martial Arts’. Based on systematic training observations, the author meticulously analyses how Mixed Martial Arts practitioners conjointly create and immerse themselves into their own world of ultimate bodily combat. With his examination of concentrative technique demonstrations, cooperative technique train-ings, and chaotic sparring practices, Staack not only provides a sociological illumination of Mixed Martial Arts culture’s defining theme – the quest of ‘Fighting As Real As It Gets’. Rather further-more, he provides a compelling cultural-sociological case study on practical social constructions of ‘authenticity’.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Staack is a Research Associate at the Institute for Sports Sciences, Department ‚Social Science of Sports‘ at the Goethe-University Frankfurt a.M.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fighting As Real As It Gets
Book Subtitle: A Micro-Sociological Encounter
Authors: Michael Staack
Series Title: Beiträge zur Praxeologie / Contributions to Praxeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-04991-9
Publisher: J.B. Metzler Stuttgart
eBook Packages: J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-476-04990-2Published: 09 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-476-04991-9Published: 25 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-0158
Series E-ISSN: 2946-0166
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 208
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Ethnography, Cultural Anthropology