TY  - BOOK
AU  - Perrino,Sabina
AU  - Reno,Joshua
TI  - Pandemic health and fitness
T2  - Routledge studies in health humanities
SN  - 9781003848677
U1  - 796.406/87309052 23/eng/20231031
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Medical anthropology
KW  - United States
KW  - Gymnasiums
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Exercise
KW  - Physiological aspects
KW  - Physical fitness
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Communication in sports
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
KW  - Discourse analysis, Narrative
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Influence
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
N2  - This book adopts an innovative approach in exploring the evolution of fitness practices among a community of gym goers amid a global pandemic, considering its impact on the interplay of the words, habits, and relationships gym goers use in realizing their aspirations of wellness and well-being. Perrino and Reno introduce a multilayered framework which combines insights from linguistic and sociocultural anthropology, integrating narrative analysis, discourse analysis, and ethnography, with autoethnography. This approach allows for a holistic portrait of the gym as a research site and of fitness as a fruitful area for dynamic cross-disciplinary study. The volume explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped attitudes and practices around fitness, drawing on audio and video recordings and the authors' lived experiences to analyze everything from workout choreography to micro-celebrity fitness culture to group classes. The book raises key questions around what it means to be well amid a pandemic, the practical dangers of realizing fitness goals in such times, the effects on the social relationships inherent to gym culture, and the impact on identity construction and self-reflection. This volume will appeal to scholars interested in the interdisciplinary study of fitness, in such areas as linguistic anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, health humanities, and sport studies
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003317036
ER  -