Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Glossary
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Carnal Ethnography as Path to Embodied Knowledge
- Chapter 2 Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter
- Chapter 3 In Search of a Martial Habitus: Identifying Core Dispositions in Wing Chun and Taijiquan
- Chapter 4 Each More Agile Than the Other: Mental and Physical Enculturation in Capoeira Regional
- Chapter 5 ‘There Is No Try in Tae Kwon Do’: Reflexive Body Techniques in Action
- Chapter 6 ‘It Is About Your Body Recognizing the Move and Automatically Doing It’: Merleau-Ponty, Habit and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Chapter 7 ‘Do You Hit Girls?’: Some Striking Moments in the Career of a Male Martial Artist
- Chapter 8 The Teacher's Blessing and the Withheld Hand: Two Vignettes of Somatic Learning in South India's Indigenous Martial Art Kalarippayattu
- Chapter 9 White Men Don't Flow: Embodied Aesthetics of the Fifty-Two Hand Blocks
- Chapter 10 Japanese Religions and Kyudo (Japanese Archery): An Anthropological Perspective
- Chapter 11 Taming the Habitus: The Gym and the Dojo as ‘Civilizing Workshops’
- Chapter 12 ‘Authenticity’, Muay Thai and Habitus
- Chapter 13 Conclusion: Present and Future Lines of Research
- Epilogue Homines in Extremis: What Fighting Scholars Teach Us about Habitus
- References
Glossary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Contributors
- Glossary
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Carnal Ethnography as Path to Embodied Knowledge
- Chapter 2 Habitus as Topic and Tool: Reflections on Becoming a Prizefighter
- Chapter 3 In Search of a Martial Habitus: Identifying Core Dispositions in Wing Chun and Taijiquan
- Chapter 4 Each More Agile Than the Other: Mental and Physical Enculturation in Capoeira Regional
- Chapter 5 ‘There Is No Try in Tae Kwon Do’: Reflexive Body Techniques in Action
- Chapter 6 ‘It Is About Your Body Recognizing the Move and Automatically Doing It’: Merleau-Ponty, Habit and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
- Chapter 7 ‘Do You Hit Girls?’: Some Striking Moments in the Career of a Male Martial Artist
- Chapter 8 The Teacher's Blessing and the Withheld Hand: Two Vignettes of Somatic Learning in South India's Indigenous Martial Art Kalarippayattu
- Chapter 9 White Men Don't Flow: Embodied Aesthetics of the Fifty-Two Hand Blocks
- Chapter 10 Japanese Religions and Kyudo (Japanese Archery): An Anthropological Perspective
- Chapter 11 Taming the Habitus: The Gym and the Dojo as ‘Civilizing Workshops’
- Chapter 12 ‘Authenticity’, Muay Thai and Habitus
- Chapter 13 Conclusion: Present and Future Lines of Research
- Epilogue Homines in Extremis: What Fighting Scholars Teach Us about Habitus
- References
Summary
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- Fighting ScholarsHabitus and Ethnographies of Martial Arts and Combat Sports, pp. xiii - xviPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2013