Hello dear readers! Today I’m going to write about one of the topics that most catches my attention, I’m talking about boxing. But I don’t consider boxing just like a sport, I think that is a much bigger social phenomenon, worthy of being studied anthropologically. In fact, during last semester I made an ethnographic work about the México Boxing Club of Santiago, so I invite you to read the following text that includes some of my humble anthropological findings about boxing.
One of the most interesting aspects I observed in my analysis was the relevance of the body and the exhibition in the ritual of boxing. Perhaps this approach to the understanding of pugilism may seem a bit bizarre, but I’m going to try to explain why this idea has a reasonable explanation.
To get involved in the world of boxing I situated myself in the public, and from there I analyzed the relationship between the audience and the boxer. From this point of view, I realized that in boxing there is always something that is shown and also there is something that is hide, and from the recognition of those elements that are dispayed or hidden can be reached an ethnographic interpretation of boxing. The basic idea presented here is that the boxer only became a boxer if there is a public that recognizes it as such. So, from this perspective, boxing can be seen as a vouyeristic performance where there is a contemplation of an observer public to a boxers fighting face to face with each other. In conclusion, in a boxing match comes to light the intimate relationship between the public and the boxer, the first as a voyeuristic observer and the second as an exhibitionist that shows himself.
There’s also a whole dimension referred to the body and the fluids and its many meanings in the context of boxing, but that´s something that I’ll tell you in a next time. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading my blog this week, see ya…
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