03692nam 2200613Ia 450 991082496630332120240417032833.01-4384-3968-7(CKB)2670000000150014(EBL)3407246(SSID)ssj0000606509(PQKBManifestationID)11357266(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606509(PQKBWorkID)10582892(PQKB)10203153(MiAaPQ)EBC3407246(OCoLC)775361438(MdBmJHUP)muse14188(Au-PeEL)EBL3407246(CaPaEBR)ebr10574108(OCoLC)923402468(DE-B1597)683427(DE-B1597)9781438439686(EXLCZ)99267000000015001420110311d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMartial arts as embodied knowledge Asian traditions in a transnational world /edited by D. S. Farrer and John Whalen-Bridge1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20111 online resource (264 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4384-3967-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge""; ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Introduction""; ""Part I. Embodied Fantasy""; ""2. Some Versions of the Samurai""; ""3. The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts, or, The ""Communication"" of Bruce Lee""; ""4. Body, Masculinity, and Representation in Chinese Martial Arts Films""; ""Part II. How the Social Body Trains""; ""5. The Training of Perceptionin Javanese Martial Arts""; ""6. Thai Boxing""; ""Part III. Transnational Self-Construction""; ""7. From Floor to Stage""""8. The Oriental Martial Arts as Hybrid Totems, Together with Orientalized Avatars""""9. Coffee-Shop Gods""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exist in a transnational context. The book's cutting-edge research includes ethnography and approaches from film, literature, performance, and theater studies.Three central aspects emerge from this book: martial arts as embodied fantasy, as a culturally embedded form of self-cultivation, and as a continuous process of identity formation. Contributors explore several popular and highbrow cultural considerations, including the career of Bruce Lee, Chinese wuxia films, and Don DeLillo's novel Running Dog. Ethnographies explored describe how the social body trains in martial arts and how martial arts are constructed in transnational training. Ultimately, this academic study of martial arts offers a focal point for new understandings of cultural and social beliefs and of practice and agency.Martial artsSocial aspectsMartial artsMartial artsSocial aspects.Martial arts.796.8Farrer Douglas1678770Whalen-Bridge John1961-1595452MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824966303321Martial arts as embodied knowledge4046611UNINA