LEADER 01995nam 2200397 450 001 9910367649903321 005 20230221072205.0 010 $a1-911653-01-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000010104967 035 $a(NjHacI)994100000010104967 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010104967 100 $a20230221d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeconstructing Martial Arts /$fPaul Browman 210 1$aCardiff, United Kingdom :$cCardiff University Press,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 169 pages) 311 $a1-911653-00-8 330 $aWhat is the essence of martial arts? What is their place in or relationship with culture and society? 'Deconstructing Martial Arts' analyses familiar issues and debates that arise in scholarly, practitioner and popular cultural discussions and treatments of martial arts and argues that martial arts are dynamic and variable constructs whose meanings and values regularly shift, mutate and transform, depending on the context. It argues that deconstructing martial arts is an invaluable approach to both the scholarly study of martial arts in culture and society and also to wider understandings of what and why martial arts are. Placing martial arts in relation to core questions and concerns of media and cultural studies around identity, value, orientalism, and embodiment, Deconstructing Martial Arts introduces and elaborates deconstruction as a rewarding method of cultural studies. 606 $aMartial arts$xStudy and teaching 606 $aMartial arts 606 $aEthics 615 0$aMartial arts$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aMartial arts. 615 0$aEthics. 676 $a796.8071 700 $aBowman$b Paul$0517261 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367649903321 996 $aDeconstructing Martial Arts$93017909 997 $aUNINA