“Yeah, and What’s the Problem?” Embodiment, Cultural Practices and Working out in a Dutch Gym
In this paper, I present empirical data from ethnographic work carried out in a Dutch gym, where people, especially students, from different countries work out, interact and explore ideas and practices related to their cultures and to other people’s cultures. I will analyse and explain four things: first, the social skills required to successfully interact in a multicultural space; second, the cultural and physical skills that people who have worked out in this gym for a long time have embodied; third, the skills and culture that foreigners have to quickly learn; and finally, how this affects... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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Schlagwörter: | gym / embodiment / body language / Amsterdam |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28996621 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6020044 |