Martial Arts Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martial Arts Studies write by Paul Bowman. This book was released on 2015-04-09. Martial Arts Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The phrase “martial arts studies” is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest. But many academic fields including history, philosophy, anthropology, and Area studies already engage with martial arts in their own particular way. Therefore, is there really such a thing as a unique field of martial arts studies? Martial Arts Studies is the first book to engage directly with these questions. It assesses the multiplicity and heterogeneity of possible approaches to martial arts studies, exploring orientations and limitations of existing approaches. It makes a case for constructing the field of martial arts studies in terms of key coordinates from post-structuralism, cultural studies, media studies, and post-colonialism. By using these anti-disciplinary approaches to disrupt the approaches of other disciplines, Martial Arts Studies proposes a field that both emerges out of and differs from its many disciplinary locations.
Mythologies of Martial Arts
Mythologies of Martial Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mythologies of Martial Arts write by Paul Bowman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. This book was released on 2016-12-07. Mythologies of Martial Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mythologies of Martial Arts is an introduction to the key myths and ideologies around martial arts in contemporary popular culture internationally. It is the first book to draw together practical experience and seminal texts across a multitude of disciplines to offer original insights into the complex, contradictory world of martial arts. It is an accessible but theoretically sophisticated book aimed at student, scholars and anyone interested in martial arts practice.
Hong Kong Martial Artists
Hong Kong Martial Artists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hong Kong Martial Artists write by Daniel Miles Amos. This book was released on 2021-03-24. Hong Kong Martial Artists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This imaginative and innovative study by Daniel Miles Amos, begun in 1976 and completed in 2020, examines sociocultural changes in the practices of Chinese martial artists in two closely related and interconnected southern Chinese cities, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. The initial chapters of the book compare how sociocultural changes from World War II to the mid-1980s affected the practices of Chinese martial artists in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong and neighboring Guangzhou in mainland China. An analysis is made of how the practices of Chinese martial artists have been influenced by revolutionary sociocultural changes in both cities. In Guangzhou, the victory of the Chinese Communist Party lead to the disappearance in the early 1950s of secret societies and kungfu brotherhoods. Kungfu brotherhoods reappeared during the Cultural Revolution, and subsequently were transformed again after the death of Mao Zedong, and China’s opening to capitalism. In Hong Kong, dramatic sociocultural changes were set off by the introduction of manufacturing production lines by international corporations in the mid-1950s, and the proliferation of foreign franchises and products. Economic globalization in Hong Kong has led to dramatic increases both in the territory’s Gross Domestic Product and in cultural homogenization, with corresponding declines in many local traditions and folk cultures, including Chinese martial arts. The final chapters of the book focus on changes in the practices of Chinese martial arts in Hong Kong from the years 1987 to 2020, a period which includes the last decade of British colonial administration, as well as the first quarter of a century of rule by the Chinese government.
The Martial Arts Studies Reader
The Martial Arts Studies Reader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Martial Arts Studies Reader write by Paul Bowman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. This book was released on 2018-09-20. The Martial Arts Studies Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first authoritative overview of martial arts studies, written by pioneers of this dynamic and rapidly expanding new field
Martial Arts and Well-being
Martial Arts and Well-being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martial Arts and Well-being write by Carol Fuller. This book was released on 2019-12-06. Martial Arts and Well-being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Martial Arts and Well-Being explores how martial arts as a source of learning can contribute in important ways to health and well-being, as well as provide other broader social benefits. Using psychological and sociological theory related to behaviour, ritual, perception and reality construction, the book seeks to illustrate, with empirical data, how individuals make sense of and perceive the value of martial arts in their lives. This book draws on data from over 500 people, across all age ranges, and powerfully demonstrates that participating in martial arts can have a profound influence on the construction of behaviour patterns that are directly linked to lifestyle and health. Making individual connections regarding the benefits of practice, improvements to health and well-being – regardless of whether these improvements are ‘true’ in a medical sense – this book offers an important and original window into the importance of beliefs to health and well-being as well as the value of thinking about education as a process of life-long learning. This book will be of great interest to a range of audiences, including researchers, academics and postgraduate students interested in sports and exercise psychology, martial art studies and health and well-being. It should also be of interest to sociologists, social workers and martial arts practitioners. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315448084, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
