#1322 Katie Rose Hejtmanek - The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon
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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Center. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and here and today I'm joined by uh returned guest, Doctor Katie Rose Heatmanick. She's professor in the department of anthropology and the children and youth studies program at Brooklyn College, Cooney. And today we're going to talk about Her recent book, The Cult of Crossfit Christianity and the American Exercise Phenomenon. So Doctor Hitman, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to have you. Thank you for having me. A pleasure to be here.
Okay, great, so uh Tell us first, uh, since you are an anthropologist, uh how did you get to study CrossFit from an anthropological perspective? I mean what got you interested in it as sort of a social anthropological phenomenon and How did you go about doing it? Excellent question. Um so oftentimes we don't think about
Exercise or fitness or even sport is something that an anthropologist studies. Usually it's something that's exotic, that's tribe somewhere in the Amazon. Um, but part of what anthropology is really good at is making what you do that's familiar kind of strange, and then also making what's you might think as strange as familiar. Um, and so I was doing some work. I had finished my first research. I had lived in a mental institution for children, um, and I was looking for a new project and I was uh racing on a track and field team in New York, and one of my colleagues said, Oh, you should study the track team. Um, and I was like, I'm not sure that's as interesting as I would like my next project to be. And so I was like but I was like that's a good idea to kind of Um I was interested I'm always interested in the embodied experience of culture, so how culture gets inside of our bodies.
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