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“Yeah, and What’s the Problem?” Embodiment, Cultural Practices and Working out in a Dutch Gym

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  • Alexis Sossa

    (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA), University of Amsterdam, 1012 WX Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

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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 the relationships and the activities considered important in this gym.

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  • Alexis Sossa, 2017. "“Yeah, and What’s the Problem?” Embodiment, Cultural Practices and Working out in a Dutch Gym," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 6(2), pages 1-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:6:y:2017:i:2:p:44-:d:97373
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