Scholars Researching "habitus" in The Field
- Philippe Bourgois - An anthropologist who incorporates the concept of "habitus" into much of his work with injection drug users in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Saba Mahmood - USA
- Loic Wacquant - USA studies the construction of the "pugilistic habitus" in a boxing gym of the black ghetto of Chicago in Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (2004) and in "Habitus as Topic and Tool" (2009).
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