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Fighting As Real As It Gets

A Micro-Sociological Encounter

Authors:

  1. Michael Staack

    1. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

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  • 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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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Literature on MMA

    • Michael Staack
    Pages 8-23

  8. Sparring: Setting it up and getting into it

    • Michael Staack
    Pages 102-131

  10. Conclusion

    • Michael Staack
    Pages 187-193

  11. Prospect: Future lines of research

    • Michael Staack
    Pages 194-199

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 200-208
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About this book

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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Authors and Affiliations

  • Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

    Michael Staack

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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.
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