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The invention of martial arts

Author: Search for this author Bowman, Paul (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Paul Bowman
Year: 2020
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford scholarship online
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'The Invention of Martial Arts' examines the media history of what we now call `martial arts' and argues that martial arts is a cultural construction that was born in film, TV, and other media. It argues that 'martial arts' exploded into popular consciousness entirely thanks to the work of media. Of course, the text does not deny the existence of real, material histories and non-media dimensions in martial arts practices. But it thoroughly recasts the status of such histories, combining recent myth-busting findings in historical martial arts research with important insights into the discontinuous character of history, the widespread 'invention of tradition', the orientalism and imagined geographies that animate many ideas about history, and the frequent manipulation of history for reasons of status, cultural capital, private or public power, politics, and/or financial gain.

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Author: Search for this author Bowman, Paul (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Paul Bowman
Year: 2020
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Press
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ISBN: 9780197540374
Description: 1 online resource (280 pages).
Series: Oxford scholarship online
Tags: Martial arts ; Anthropological aspects; Martial arts ; History
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Language: Englisch
Footnote: Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 16, 2020)
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