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Thomas A. Green is an associate professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas

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Værker af Thomas A. Green

Martial Arts in the Modern World (2003) 13 eksemplarer
Asia (2008) 5 eksemplarer
Europe (2008) 4 eksemplarer
North and South America (2008) 3 eksemplarer
The South, The Caribbean (2006) 3 eksemplarer
The Northwest, Cyberspace (2006) 3 eksemplarer

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1944-11-17
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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 sptead of martial arts to areas outside of their original contexts. some of these arts flourished in their new environmens, but others id not. The authors demonstrate that martial arts tare not the comservative strongholds of tradition posited by conventional wisdom, but are instead responsive and mutable barometers of change. This book is essental for students of multicultural dialogues and devotees of martial arts performance and practice.

Thomas A. Green is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Texas A&M University.

Joseph R. Svinth is Editor of Electronic Journals of Martial Arts and Sciences.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Martial arts in the modern world: Introduction by Thomas A. Green
A note on Romanization
Sense in nonsense: The role of folk history in the martial arts by Thomas A. Green
The martial arts in Chinese pysical culture, 1865-1965 by Stanley E. Henning
The spirit of manliness: Boxing in Imperial Japan, 1868-1945 by Joseph R. Svinth
Professor Yamashita goes to Washington by Joseph R. Svinth
Thei circle and the octagon: Maeda's judo and Gracie's jiu-jitsu by Thomas A. Green and Joseph R. Svinth
The myth of zen in the art of archery by Yamada Shoji
'The lion of the punjab': Gama in England, 1910 by Graham Noble
The little dragon: Bruce Lee (1940-1973) by James Halpin
Surviving the middle pasage: Traditional African martial arts in the Americas by Thomas A. Green
Kendo in North America, 1885-1955 by Joseph R. Svinth
Olympic Games and Japan by Kano Jigoro
Origins of the British Judo Association, the European Judo Union, and the International Judo Federation by Richad Bowen
The evolution of taekwondo from Japanese Karate by Eric Madis
Women's boxing and related activities: Introducing images and meanings by Jennifer Hargreaves
Freeing the Afrikan mind: The role of martial arts in contemporary African American cultural nationalism by Thomas A. Green
Action design: New directions in fight choreography by Tony Wolf
Martial arts meet the new age: Combatives in the early Twenty-first-Century American zMiliary by Joseph R. Svinth
Epilogue: Where we go from here by Joseph R. Svinth
Appendix: Definitions of terms
Notes
References (bibliography)
Index
About the editors and contributors
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21
Medlemmer
157
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#133,743
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½ 4.3
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ISBN
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