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E-book Deconstructing Martial Arts

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First things first. What are martial arts? What do we mean when we say ‘martial arts’? These two questions can be regarded as either very similar to each other or very different. Simplifying in the extreme, we might propose that, although there is a spectrum of possible answers, there are two main positions on these matters. On the one hand, there is a kind of strict or rigorously literalist position, which holds that only certain kinds of things can properly be regarded as martial arts, and that to fit the bill they must meet certain criteria, such as having been designed for or used on the battlefield, or being some (implicitly bodily) part of the ‘arts of war’. On the other hand, there is an ostensibly more relaxed, ‘loose’ or open-ended position, which might either be called cultural, ‘discursive’, or (pejoratively) ‘relativist’. This holds that, because all of the terms and concepts that we use are variable conventional constructs, a category like ‘martial arts’ only ever refers to whatever people think and say are ‘martial arts’. Both the category and the practices are heavily cultural and contextual.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

796.8 BOW d

Penerbit

Cardiff : Cardiff University Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

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Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781911653035

Klasifikasi

796.8

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Martial Arts

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