Farrer / Whalen-Bridge Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge

Asian Traditions in a Transnational World
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3968-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 261 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the martial arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Farrer, D. S.

Whalen-Bridge, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Kampfsportarten, Selbstverteidigung Ostasiatische Kampfkünste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Martial Arts, Transnationalism, and Embodied Knowledge
D. S. Farrer and John Whalen-Bridge

Part I: Embodied Fantasy2. Some Versions of the Samurai: TheBudo Core of DeLillo’s Running Dog
John Whalen-Bridge

3. The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts, or, The “Communication” of Bruce Lee
Paul Bowman
4. Body, Masculinity, and Representation in Chinese Martial Arts Films
Jie Lu

Part II: How the Social Body Trains

5. The Training of Perception in Javanese Martial Arts
Jean-Marc de Grave

6. Thai Boxing: Networking of a Polymorphous Clinch
Stéphane Rennesson

Part III: Transnational Self-Construction

7. From Floor to Stage:Kalarippayattu Travels
Martin Welton
8. The Oriental Martial Arts as Hybrid Totems, Together with Orientalized Avatars
Stephen Chan

9. Coffee-Shop Gods: Chinese Martial Arts of the Singapore Diaspora
D. S. Farrer

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

D. S. Farrer is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Guam and the author of Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism. John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore and the editor of several books, including (with Gary Storhoff) American Buddhism as a Way of Life, also published by SUNY Press.