Martial arts in the modern world
- 其他作者: Green, Thomas A., , Svinth, Joseph R.
- 出版: Westport, Conn. : Praeger 2003.
- 稽核項: xiii, 322 p. :ill. ;25 cm.
- 標題: Martial arts Anthropological aspects. , Martial arts History. , Martial arts , History. , Anthropological aspects.
- ISBN: 0275981533 , 9780275981532
- 附註: 94年度教育部「建構圖書館多元館藏曁服務品質提升計畫」購藏 Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-316) and index. Sense in the nonsense : the role of folk history in the martial arts / Thomas A. Green -- The martial arts in Chinese physical culture, 1865-1965 / Stanley E. Henning -- The spirit of manliness : boxing in imperial Japan, 1868-1945 / Joseph R. Svinth -- Professor Yamashita goes to Washington / Joseph R. Svinth -- The circle and the octagon : Maeda's judo and Gracies's jiu-jitsu / Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth -- The myth of Zen in the art of archery / Yamada Shoji -- "The lion of the Punjab" : Gama in England, 1910 / Graham Noble -- The little dragon : Bruce Lee (1940-1973) / James Halpin --Surviving the middle passage : traditional African martial arts in the Americas / Thomas A. Green -- Kendo in North America, 1885-1955 / Joseph R. Svinth -- Olympic games and Japan / Kano Jigoro -- Origins of the British Judo Association, the European Judo Union, and the International Judo Federation / Richard Bowen -- The evolution of Taekwondo from Japanese karate / Eric Madis -- Women's boxing and related activities : introducing images and meanings / Jennifer Hargreaves -- Freeing the Afrikan mind : the role of martial arts in contemporary African American cultural nationalism / Thomas A. Green -- Action design : new directions in fight choreography / Tony Wolf -- Martial arts meet the new age : combatives in the early twenty-first-century American military / Joseph R. Svinth -- Epilogue : Where we go from here / Joseph R. Svinth.
- 系統號: 005204693
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Martial arts, once restricted to a few specific locations and practiced by small groups of devotees, have truly spread throughout the world. The plethora of tae kwando and karate dojos in U.S. shopping malls attests to the popularity of various kinds of martial arts in this country. Though generally perceived and advertised as means of self-defense, body sculpting, and self-discipline, martial arts are actually social tools that respond to altered physical, social, and psychological environments. This book examines how practitioners have responded to stimuli such as feminism, globalism, imperialism, militarism, nationalism, slavery, and the commercialization of sport. In a series of chapters devoted to Asian, African, and European systems of the late 19th to early 21st centuries, the authors examine the forces and philosophies that shaped fighting arts in diverse cultural settings. Because of political, social, and economic factors, this period witnessed the spread of martial arts to areas outside of their original contexts. Some of these arts flourished in their new environments, but others did not. The authors demonstrate that martial arts are not the conservative strongholds of tradition posited by conventional wisdom, but are instead responsive and mutable barometers of change. This book is essential for students of multicultural dialogues and devotees of martial arts performance and practice.
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