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Fighting for honor : the history of African martial art traditions in the Atlantic world / T.J. Desch Obi.
Van Pelt Library GV1100.82 D47 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desch-Obi, M. Thomas J.
- Series:
- Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
- The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Martial arts--Africa.
- Martial arts.
- Martial arts--North America.
- Martial arts--South America.
- Martial arts--History.
- Martial arts--Anthropological aspects.
- History.
- South America.
- North America.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 346 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking investigation into the migration of martial arts techniques across continents and centuries
- Contents:
- Introduction: divining an approach
- Birth of traditions
- From across the Kalunga: pastoral pugilism in southern Angola to 1860
- Bloodless duels: combative custom in Biafra to 1860
- Across the Kalunga
- Enslaved honor: the utility of martial art in North America
- Return passages: ritual and revolutionary liberation from bondage in the francophone Caribbean
- Urban inversions: combat societies in Rio de Janeiro
- Conclusion: embodied traditions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-338) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781570037184
- 1570037183
- OCLC:
- 177820081
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