The Martial Arts Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Bowman, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first authoritative overview of martial arts studies, written by pioneers of this dynamic and rapidly expanding new field

Produktdetails

• Martial Arts Studies
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9781786605498
• ISBN-10: 178660549X
• Artikelnr.: 52639753

Autorenporträt

Edited by Paul Bowman

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: What
Where and Why is Martial Arts Studies? Paul Bowman / 2. Early Chinese Works on Martial Arts Peter Lorge / 3. The Battlefield and the Bedroom: Chinese Martial Arts and Art of the Bedchamber Douglas Wile / 4. Martial Arts by the Book: Historical European Martial Arts Daniel Jaquet / 5. The Phone Book Project: Tracing the Diffusion of Asian Martial Arts in America Through the Yellow Pages
 Michael Molasky / 6. Martial Arts
Media
and (Material) Religion
 Esther Berg-Chan / 7. Liminoid Longings and Liminal Belonging: Hyper-reality
History and the Search for Meaning in the Modern Martial Arts
 Benjamin N. Judkins / 8. 'He's an Animal': Naturalizing the Hyperreal in Modern Combat Sport
 Janet O'Shea / 9. Martial Arts as a Coping Strategy for Violence
 Sixt Wetzler / 10. Performance Ethnography
 D. S. Farrer / 11. Martial Arts Studies and the Sociology of Gender: Theory
Research and Pedagogical Application
 Alex Channon / 12. Masculinities
Bodies
and Martial Arts
 Dale C. Spencer / 13. Martial Arts as Embodied
Discursive
and Aesthetic Practice
 Tim Trausch / 14. Carnival of the Drunken Master: The Politics of the Kung Fu Comedic Body
 Luke White / 15. Learning from Martial Arts
 Meaghan Morris and Paul Bowman