Exploring the natural underground : a new sociology of caving
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Exploring the natural underground : a new sociology of caving
（Routledge critical leisure studies）
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Focuses on the natural underground as a synchronic environment, an environment that can be entered at any time for an existential experience that is sometimes social but always deeply personal.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: First Encounters with the Kingdom of the Dark
2 Descenders, Static Line and Some Methodological Considerations: Choosing 'Tackle' for the Job
3 The Underside of Modernity
4 The Poetics of Caving: Rediscovering Intimate Things
5 Unsilencing Fear in the Natural Underground
6 Life and Death Underground: Mortality, Immortality and Other Survival Strategies
7 An Uncommercial Traveller's Guide to the Art of Sublimation
8 Journeying to the End and Back: Reaching a Choke
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