TY - BOOK AU - Oualhaci,Akim TI - Transmission of Knowledge, Hierarchies, and Recognition in a Thai Boxing Gym in a Working-class Banlieue PY - 2014///. N1 - 43 N2 - Based on an ethnographic study through participant observation and interviews in a Thai boxing gym in a working-class banlieue, this article analyses the modalities of the transmission of Thai boxing and its social effects. The learning process of Thai boxing is a form of socialization for the virile fractions of the working-class banlieue youth that brings them sport knowledge, ways of being, and a social status. I show the teaching and supervision of the trainers only begin to be mildly recognized by the municipality despite the gym’s long history UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-anthropologie-des-connaissances-2014-4-page-807?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -