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This document summarizes an article that examines the lived experience of professional prizefighters through participant observation in a boxing gym. It argues that boxing offers more than just economic opportunity - it provides a sense of social difference and transcendence. Boxers are able to separate themselves from everyday life and construct a moral and sensual world through their practice of corporeal sacrifice and discipline in the ring. Material hardship is not the only factor driving people to boxi

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atarip

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