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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Martial Arts Studies Reader | Cover | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| 1 Introduction: What, Where and Why is Martial Arts Studies? | 1 | ||
| 2 Early Chinese Works on Martial Arts | 13 | ||
| 3 The Battlefield and the Bedroom: Chinese Martial Arts and Art of the Bedchamber | 27 | ||
| 4 Martial Arts by the Book: Late Medieval and Early Modern European Martial Arts | 41 | ||
| 5 The Phone Book Project: Tracing the Diffusion of Asian Martial Arts in America through the Yellow Pages | 57 | ||
| 6 Martial Arts, Media and (Material) Religion | 73 | ||
| 7 Liminoid Longings and Liminal Belonging: Hyper-reality, History and the Search for Meaning in the Modern Martial Arts | 89 | ||
| 8 ‘He’s an Animal’: Naturalizing the Hyper-real in Modern Combat Sport | 107 | ||
| 9 Martial Arts as a Coping Strategy for Violence | 123 | ||
| 10 Performance Ethnography | 137 | ||
| 11 Martial Arts Studies and the Sociology of Gender: Theory, Research and Pedagogical Application | 155 | ||
| 12 Masculinities, Bodies and Martial Arts | 171 | ||
| 13 Martial Arts as Embodied, Discursive and Aesthetic Practice | 187 | ||
| 14 Carnival of the Drunken Master: The Politics of the Kung Fu Comedic Body | 199 | ||
| 15 Learning from Martial Arts | 213 | ||
| Index | 227 | ||
| Notes on the Contributors | 233 |