'Fighting Scholars' presents insightful ethnographic research on a range
of different martial arts and combat sports. Taking the habitus as a
central theme of analysis, the different contributions of this volume
are aligned within the same project that began to crystallize in Loïc
Wacquant's 'Body and Soul' the construction of a 'carnal sociology' that
constitutes an exploration of the social world 'from' the body.