George Jennings
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Jennings |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Jennings |
| SIGNATURE | JENNINGS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3781-568X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Theoretical and Conceptual Development in and through Martial Arts Studies: Preface to a Special Issue
This article provides an outline and rationale for a special issue of Martial Arts Studies concerning the development of concepts and theories from within the field of martial arts studies. Based on a series of short contributions from the authors whose work constitutes the special issue, the piece foregrounds the importance of concept development with respect to the identity, maturation, growing independence, and wider academic impact of the fie…
"This is Where I Built Myself": A Social Integration Perspective of the Taekwondo Club as a Transcultural Venue
In this paper, we present a case study illustrating how martial arts clubs can act as transcultural venues contributing to social integration. We identify taekwondo-dojangs (taekwondo clubs), which comprise practitioners of various ethnicities, religions, genders, and generations, as a ‘transcultural venue’ through which taekwondo practitioners can experience social integration. Interview data with practitioners in three clubs in Wales, UK, are c…
Life in and out of combat clubs: The experiences of Iranian martial artists
Considering the mechanized modern living in restricted indoor spaces, aggression and mental disorders among young people and adults and their negative consequences in Iran, in-depth studies of this issue are important. The purpose of this article is to understand the meaning of combat sports for Iranian athletes and to understand how it drives them to action. Following an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) approach, 17 male kickboxing…
Creating sticky cultures: A pedagogical strategy
The pedagogic strategies of successful teachers are an important focus for educational research. Successful instructors in martial arts and combat sports earn loyalty and commitment from their students, creating an attractive culture. The paper presents ethnographic data on pedagogical strategies in two educational sites, to demonstrate the empirical and theoretical relevance of the work of Gary Alan Fine. We conducted fieldwork on two groups in …
What would the Marshal do: Historical heroes as role models in contemporary martial arts
Many martial arts systems have their own revered heroes, such as mythical founders and leaders of notable schools. The paper draws on ethnographic research conducted on The Blade Academy, an expanding historical European martial arts (HEMA) school in the United Kingdom. Among pedagogic strategies used by the lead instructors and their core followers are narratives about historic figures whose heroic beliefs and deeds should be respected and even …
Looking East and South: Philosophical Reflections on Taijiquan and Capoeira
In a precarious occupation, martial arts instructors must be inspiring and build a shared philosophy. Drawing on Taijiquan and Capoeira, which have their philosophical or epistemological roots in Asia and Africa, this article explores core concepts that feature in students’ enculturation. These concepts are grounded in epistemologies contrasting with Papineau’s work on popular and elite sport, Knowing the Score. More specifically, the philosophic…
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A Typology of Martial Arts Scholar–Practitioners: Types, Transitions, and Tensions in Capoeira
Martial arts are concerned with continuous technical practice and refinement over a lifetime, while scholarship is ordinarily undertaken by active learners and experienced (occasionally veteran) practitioners. These martial arts scholar–practitioners tend to be positioned according to specific types, from a more distant (and sometimes critical) scholar with less combat acumen to an instructor keen to read and engage in collaborative research. Thi…
“¡Podemos quitar la piel!” Realizando la carrera cósmica en Xilam mexicano
Xilam es un arte marcial moderno inspirado en las culturas guerreras mesoamericanas prehispánicas, especialmente en la cosmovisión azteca. Como sistema de desarrollo humano, Xilam pretende formar una joven generación de mexicanos dignos como guerreros modernos, orgullosos de su herencia y ascendencia indígena. Su filosofía también hace hincapié en la naturaleza étnica y cultural híbrida de México, mezclando influencias indígenas, europeas y asiát…
“Filthy lefties!”: The humorous stigmatization of left-handers in historical European martial arts
Les gauchers, qui représentent 10 à 13 % de l’humanité, sont surreprésentés dans les sports de combat. Pourtant, au cours des siècles, le fait d’être gaucher a été associé à la malchance, à la maladresse, à la sorcellerie et à la diablerie. Les styles d’escrime historiques et les manuscrits qui les expliquent ont été élaborés à l’intention de droitiers qui combattaient des adversaires eux aussi droitiers. Les versions réinventées de ces arts mart…
Teo, S. (2021). Chinese martial arts film and the philosophy of action . London: Routledge, 164 pages
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom
This study analyzes texts in British books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and websites alongside field research, interviews and visits to training institutions to document the history and expansion of Taijiquan (also known as Tai Chi) in the United Kingdom (UK). By applying Eichberg's “body cultures” model and suggested methodology, this paper explores the spread and change of Taijiquan, and the communication-based dynamics of its diffusion an…
Health, Identification and Pleasure: An Ethnographic Study on the Self-Management and Construction of Taijiquan Park Culture Space
The public space of a park is one of the most important carriers of social interaction and cultural practice in urban areas. Taking an ethnography of Taijiquan in Chengdu (China) as a case study, this article explores the production of Taijiquan's "park culture space" (PCS). Our analysis revealed that the development of PCS not only transformed "public space" in the park to a "private space" through Taijiquan practice and exchange but also transf…
Hang the Flesh off the Bones”: Cultivating an “Ideal Body” in Taijiquan and Neigong
In a globalized, media-driven society, people are being exposed to different cultural and philosophical ideas. In Europe, the School of Internal Arts (pseudonym) follows key principles of the ancient Chinese text The Yijinjing (The Muscle-Tendon Change Classic) "Skeleton up, flesh down", in its online and offline pedagogy. This article draws on an ongoing ethnographic, netnographic and cross-cultural investigation of the transmission of knowledge…
Cultivating Health in Martial Arts and Combat Sports Pedagogies: A Theoretical Framework on the Care of the Self
Martial arts and combat sports" (MACS) are a myriad of systems of embodied movements and underlying philosophy and pedagogies. Due to the intrinsic complexity of MACS, they have the potential to both reshape practitioners' selves and improve their wellbeing, as well as to hamper the pursuit of sustainable, healthy lifestyles. This article provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to critically approach both the "light" and the "dark" si…
A Punch Has No Paternity: Techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam
This article combines ethnographic and netnographic data to explore the relationships between body techniques and a sense of belonging through the contemporary Mexican martial art of Xilam. This art, founded by a female Mexican martial arts veteran, is slowly developing as a hand-to-hand sport, and has attracted critics for its supposed use of East Asian fighting techniques. Netnographic data reveal online debates on the origins and 'true belongi…
Martial Arts under the Covid-19 Lockdown: The Pragmatics of Creative Pedagogy
Martial arts organisations increasingly blend online and offline activity in order to cultivate specific qualities, skills and virtues. Students and instructors use blogs, chat fora, videos and podcasts to supplement their self- and shared cultivation, and this expanded with the COVID-19 lockdown in Britain. Martial arts schools have been closed and even disbanded while governments control people’s physical interactions through social distancing …
Style, stamina and mobile masculinities: The reinvention of Savate in the Anglosphere
The roots of Savate in France stretch back at least 200 years, and there is extensive interdisciplinary research in French showing changing interpretations of its meaning and purpose. Savate is now a globalised combat sports with potential to enter the Olympic Games. To help remedy the lacuna of English-language research, this paper considers: (1) Documentaries and rare instructional literature; (2) online videos and discussions of archival Savat…
Bruce Lee and the Invention of Jeet Kune Do: The Theory of Martial Creation
This article argues that creativity in martial arts can be linked to moments of crisis. It does so on the basis of a comparative analysis of Bruce Lee’s martial artistry (specifically his creation of Jeet Kune Do) in relation to the earlier development of Bartitsu and the more recent example of Xilam. All three of these arts were founded by experienced practitioners who took personal and social crises as stimulus for creativity. Lee’s own crises …
Healthism and the experiences of social, healthcare and self-stigma of women with higher-weight
Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical-cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, we examine here the lived experience of weather, including 'weather work' and 'weather learning', in our specific physical-cultural worlds of distance-running, triathlon and jogging in…
The Kung Fu Family: A metaphor of belonging across time and place
Kung Fu associations are often understood as ‘families’ forming broader ‘family trees’ or lineages operating across centuries of history as well as transcultural associations. In an effort contributing to interdisciplinary martial arts studies, this paper presents data from two qualitative studies of Western practitioners of traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMA) in both the West and Asia by a phenomenological psychologist and an anthropologi…
From the Calendar to the Flesh: Movement, Space, and Identity in a Mexican Body Culture
There are numerous ways to theorise about elements of civilisations and societies known as ‘body’, ‘movement’, or ‘physical’ cultures. Inspired by the late Henning Eichberg’s notions of multiple and continually shifting body cultures, this article explores his constant comparative (trialectic) approach via the Mexican martial art, exercise, and human development philosophy—Xilam. Situating Xilam within its historical and political context and wit…
Exploring Lived Heat, "Temperature Work," and Embodiment: Novel Auto/Ethnographic Insights from Physical Cultures
Drawing on sociological and anthropological theorizations of the senses and "sensory work," the purpose of this article is to investigate via phenomenology-based auto/ethnography, and to generate novel insights into the underresearched sense of thermoception, as the lived sense of temperature. Based on four long-term, in-depth auto/ethnographic research projects, we examine whether thermoception can be conceptualized as a distinct sense or is mor…
Martial arts pedagogies and practice: A report on the contributions to coaching knowledge
The 4th International Coaching Conference held at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, showcased a range of studies concerning pedagogy in martial arts (MA). They varied in regards to their underpinning discipline, theory and method, but were united by a concern for enhancing practice in both pedagogy (the science) and pedagogies (the objects of study). One theoretical talk advocated a study of individual practices (techniques of the body and the…
It can be a religion if you want: Wing Chun Kung Fu as a secular religion
Drawing on data generated from a six-year ethnographic study of one Wing Chun Kung Fu Association in England, this article explores the ways in which this martial art is constructed as a form of religion and functions as a secular religious practice for core members of this association. Two key features of this process are identified. The first involves the ways in which Wing Chun evolves from an everyday secular practice into something that take…
The Rules of Engagement: Negotiating Painful and “Intimate” Touch in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts
Within the sociology of sport and its related disciplines, martial arts have become increasingly popular sites for research on embodiment, gender and society. While much previous work in this area has focused upon the embodied experiences of either male or female practitioners, relatively few studies have directly addressed the social significance of mixed-sex practice. In this empirically-focused paper, we draw on qualitative, semistructured int…
Exploring Lived Heat, "Temperature Work," and Embodiment: Novel Auto/Ethnographic Insights from Physical Cultures
Drawing on sociological and anthropological theorizations of the senses and "sensory work," the purpose of this article is to investigate via phenomenology-based auto/ethnography, and to generate novel insights into the underresearched sense of thermoception, as the lived sense of temperature. Based on four long-term, in-depth auto/ethnographic research projects, we examine whether thermoception can be conceptualized as a distinct sense or is mor…
Healthism and the experiences of social, healthcare and self-stigma of women with higher-weight
Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical-cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, we examine here the lived experience of weather, including 'weather work' and 'weather learning', in our specific physical-cultural worlds of distance-running, triathlon and jogging in…
Transmitting Health Philosophies through the Traditionalist Chinese Martial Arts in the UK
The dynamic relationships between “martial arts”, society and health remain unclear, particularly due to research that typically views health in a purely biomedical and compartmentalized way. Martial arts and combat sports (MACS) offer a diversity of disciplines with their own intended training outcomes and techne. The traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMAs), such as Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and Wing Chun Kung Fu, stress health promotion/pre…
Taijiquan the “Taiji World” Way: Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Ecology
In this article, we present a case study analysis of data gathered on the practice of the art of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) in one UK context. Our interest in looking at this physical culture was in exploring if/how physical cultures of shared embodied experience and practice may help “sow the seeds of environmental awareness”. In so doing, we illustrate certain affinities between this interpretation of the art and Beck’s idea of a “cosmopolitan v…
Ancient wisdom, modern warrriors: The (re)invention of a Mesoamerican tradition in Xilam
Xilam is a modern Mexican martial art that is inspired by pre-Hispanic warrior cultures of ancient Mesoamerica, namely the Aztecs (Mexica), Maya and Zapotec cultures. It provides a noteworthy case study of a Latin American fighting system that has been recently invented, but aspires to rescue, rediscover and relive the warrior philosophies that existed before the Spanish Conquest and subsequent movements beginning in 1521. Using the thought-provo…
From the Calendar to the Flesh: Movement, Space, and Identity in a Mexican Body Culture
There are numerous ways to theorise about elements of civilisations and societies known as ‘body’, ‘movement’, or ‘physical’ cultures. Inspired by the late Henning Eichberg’s notions of multiple and continually shifting body cultures, this article explores his constant comparative (trialectic) approach via the Mexican martial art, exercise, and human development philosophy—Xilam. Situating Xilam within its historical and political context and wit…
Cultivating Health in Martial Arts and Combat Sports Pedagogies: A Theoretical Framework on the Care of the Self
Martial arts and combat sports" (MACS) are a myriad of systems of embodied movements and underlying philosophy and pedagogies. Due to the intrinsic complexity of MACS, they have the potential to both reshape practitioners' selves and improve their wellbeing, as well as to hamper the pursuit of sustainable, healthy lifestyles. This article provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to critically approach both the "light" and the "dark" si…
Bruce Lee and the Invention of Jeet Kune Do: The Theory of Martial Creation
This article argues that creativity in martial arts can be linked to moments of crisis. It does so on the basis of a comparative analysis of Bruce Lee’s martial artistry (specifically his creation of Jeet Kune Do) in relation to the earlier development of Bartitsu and the more recent example of Xilam. All three of these arts were founded by experienced practitioners who took personal and social crises as stimulus for creativity. Lee’s own crises …
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom
This study analyzes texts in British books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and websites alongside field research, interviews and visits to training institutions to document the history and expansion of Taijiquan (also known as Tai Chi) in the United Kingdom (UK). By applying Eichberg's “body cultures” model and suggested methodology, this paper explores the spread and change of Taijiquan, and the communication-based dynamics of its diffusion an…
A Punch Has No Paternity: Techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam
This article combines ethnographic and netnographic data to explore the relationships between body techniques and a sense of belonging through the contemporary Mexican martial art of Xilam. This art, founded by a female Mexican martial arts veteran, is slowly developing as a hand-to-hand sport, and has attracted critics for its supposed use of East Asian fighting techniques. Netnographic data reveal online debates on the origins and 'true belongi…
It can be a religion if you want: Wing Chun Kung Fu as a secular religion
Drawing on data generated from a six-year ethnographic study of one Wing Chun Kung Fu Association in England, this article explores the ways in which this martial art is constructed as a form of religion and functions as a secular religious practice for core members of this association. Two key features of this process are identified. The first involves the ways in which Wing Chun evolves from an everyday secular practice into something that take…
Interviews as embodied interaction: Confessions from a practitioner–researcher of martial arts
Martial Arts and Combat Sports (MACS) are now a major area of qualitative inquiry in physical culture studies. As part of this subfield, reflexive accounts of ethnographic methods are contributing to knowledge of qualitative methods and embodied interactions. Within this article I seek to add to these growing contributions by considering a relatively understudied strategy in martial arts research – that of face–to–face interviews – from a physica…
The Rules of Engagement: Negotiating Painful and “Intimate” Touch in Mixed-Sex Martial Arts
Within the sociology of sport and its related disciplines, martial arts have become increasingly popular sites for research on embodiment, gender and society. While much previous work in this area has focused upon the embodied experiences of either male or female practitioners, relatively few studies have directly addressed the social significance of mixed-sex practice. In this empirically-focused paper, we draw on qualitative, semistructured int…
Transmitting Health Philosophies through the Traditionalist Chinese Martial Arts in the UK
The dynamic relationships between “martial arts”, society and health remain unclear, particularly due to research that typically views health in a purely biomedical and compartmentalized way. Martial arts and combat sports (MACS) offer a diversity of disciplines with their own intended training outcomes and techne. The traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMAs), such as Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) and Wing Chun Kung Fu, stress health promotion/pre…
Taijiquan the “Taiji World” Way: Towards a Cosmopolitan Vision of Ecology
In this article, we present a case study analysis of data gathered on the practice of the art of Taijiquan (Tai Chi Chuan) in one UK context. Our interest in looking at this physical culture was in exploring if/how physical cultures of shared embodied experience and practice may help “sow the seeds of environmental awareness”. In so doing, we illustrate certain affinities between this interpretation of the art and Beck’s idea of a “cosmopolitan v…
Men and masculinities around the world: Transforming Men's Practices
As the subtitle of Men and masculinities around the world: Transforming men’s practices suggests, the focus of the book is on how men’s practices are transforming or being transformed in specific l
Ancient wisdom, modern warrriors: The (re)invention of a Mesoamerican tradition in Xilam
Xilam is a modern Mexican martial art that is inspired by pre-Hispanic warrior cultures of ancient Mesoamerica, namely the Aztecs (Mexica), Maya and Zapotec cultures. It provides a noteworthy case study of a Latin American fighting system that has been recently invented, but aspires to rescue, rediscover and relive the warrior philosophies that existed before the Spanish Conquest and subsequent movements beginning in 1521. Using the thought-provo…
Martial arts pedagogies and practice: A report on the contributions to coaching knowledge
The 4th International Coaching Conference held at Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, showcased a range of studies concerning pedagogy in martial arts (MA). They varied in regards to their underpinning discipline, theory and method, but were united by a concern for enhancing practice in both pedagogy (the science) and pedagogies (the objects of study). One theoretical talk advocated a study of individual practices (techniques of the body and the…
Communicating martial arts knowledge: Conferring over a wealth of possibilities
The 3 rd Annual Martial Arts Studies Conference held at Cardiff University (11-13 July, 2017) was an eclectic collection of keynotes, papers, workshops, networking and social events. It connected PhD students, established professors and practitioner-instructors in university lecture rooms, public parks and music halls across three days of academic, social and physical activities. From historical studies of Chinese martial arts to the performance …
The Kung Fu Family: A metaphor of belonging across time and place
Kung Fu associations are often understood as ‘families’ forming broader ‘family trees’ or lineages operating across centuries of history as well as transcultural associations. In an effort contributing to interdisciplinary martial arts studies, this paper presents data from two qualitative studies of Western practitioners of traditionalist Chinese martial arts (TCMA) in both the West and Asia by a phenomenological psychologist and an anthropologi…
From the Calendar to the Flesh: Movement, Space, and Identity in a Mexican Body Culture
There are numerous ways to theorise about elements of civilisations and societies known as ‘body’, ‘movement’, or ‘physical’ cultures. Inspired by the late Henning Eichberg’s notions of multiple and continually shifting body cultures, this article explores his constant comparative (trialectic) approach via the Mexican martial art, exercise, and human development philosophy—Xilam. Situating Xilam within its historical and political context and wit…
Exploring Lived Heat, "Temperature Work," and Embodiment: Novel Auto/Ethnographic Insights from Physical Cultures
Drawing on sociological and anthropological theorizations of the senses and "sensory work," the purpose of this article is to investigate via phenomenology-based auto/ethnography, and to generate novel insights into the underresearched sense of thermoception, as the lived sense of temperature. Based on four long-term, in-depth auto/ethnographic research projects, we examine whether thermoception can be conceptualized as a distinct sense or is mor…
Bruce Lee and the Invention of Jeet Kune Do: The Theory of Martial Creation
This article argues that creativity in martial arts can be linked to moments of crisis. It does so on the basis of a comparative analysis of Bruce Lee’s martial artistry (specifically his creation of Jeet Kune Do) in relation to the earlier development of Bartitsu and the more recent example of Xilam. All three of these arts were founded by experienced practitioners who took personal and social crises as stimulus for creativity. Lee’s own crises …
Healthism and the experiences of social, healthcare and self-stigma of women with higher-weight
Weather-wise? Sporting embodiment, weather work and weather learning in running and triathlon
Weather experiences are currently surprisingly under-explored and under-theorised in sociology and sport sociology, despite the importance of weather in both routine, everyday life and in recreational sporting and physical-cultural contexts. To address this lacuna, we examine here the lived experience of weather, including 'weather work' and 'weather learning', in our specific physical-cultural worlds of distance-running, triathlon and jogging in…
Martial Arts under the Covid-19 Lockdown: The Pragmatics of Creative Pedagogy
Martial arts organisations increasingly blend online and offline activity in order to cultivate specific qualities, skills and virtues. Students and instructors use blogs, chat fora, videos and podcasts to supplement their self- and shared cultivation, and this expanded with the COVID-19 lockdown in Britain. Martial arts schools have been closed and even disbanded while governments control people’s physical interactions through social distancing …
Style, stamina and mobile masculinities: The reinvention of Savate in the Anglosphere
The roots of Savate in France stretch back at least 200 years, and there is extensive interdisciplinary research in French showing changing interpretations of its meaning and purpose. Savate is now a globalised combat sports with potential to enter the Olympic Games. To help remedy the lacuna of English-language research, this paper considers: (1) Documentaries and rare instructional literature; (2) online videos and discussions of archival Savat…
Health, Identification and Pleasure: An Ethnographic Study on the Self-Management and Construction of Taijiquan Park Culture Space
The public space of a park is one of the most important carriers of social interaction and cultural practice in urban areas. Taking an ethnography of Taijiquan in Chengdu (China) as a case study, this article explores the production of Taijiquan's "park culture space" (PCS). Our analysis revealed that the development of PCS not only transformed "public space" in the park to a "private space" through Taijiquan practice and exchange but also transf…
Hang the Flesh off the Bones”: Cultivating an “Ideal Body” in Taijiquan and Neigong
In a globalized, media-driven society, people are being exposed to different cultural and philosophical ideas. In Europe, the School of Internal Arts (pseudonym) follows key principles of the ancient Chinese text The Yijinjing (The Muscle-Tendon Change Classic) "Skeleton up, flesh down", in its online and offline pedagogy. This article draws on an ongoing ethnographic, netnographic and cross-cultural investigation of the transmission of knowledge…
Cultivating Health in Martial Arts and Combat Sports Pedagogies: A Theoretical Framework on the Care of the Self
Martial arts and combat sports" (MACS) are a myriad of systems of embodied movements and underlying philosophy and pedagogies. Due to the intrinsic complexity of MACS, they have the potential to both reshape practitioners' selves and improve their wellbeing, as well as to hamper the pursuit of sustainable, healthy lifestyles. This article provides an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to critically approach both the "light" and the "dark" si…
A Punch Has No Paternity: Techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam
This article combines ethnographic and netnographic data to explore the relationships between body techniques and a sense of belonging through the contemporary Mexican martial art of Xilam. This art, founded by a female Mexican martial arts veteran, is slowly developing as a hand-to-hand sport, and has attracted critics for its supposed use of East Asian fighting techniques. Netnographic data reveal online debates on the origins and 'true belongi…
“¡Podemos quitar la piel!” Realizando la carrera cósmica en Xilam mexicano
Xilam es un arte marcial moderno inspirado en las culturas guerreras mesoamericanas prehispánicas, especialmente en la cosmovisión azteca. Como sistema de desarrollo humano, Xilam pretende formar una joven generación de mexicanos dignos como guerreros modernos, orgullosos de su herencia y ascendencia indígena. Su filosofía también hace hincapié en la naturaleza étnica y cultural híbrida de México, mezclando influencias indígenas, europeas y asiát…
“Filthy lefties!”: The humorous stigmatization of left-handers in historical European martial arts
Les gauchers, qui représentent 10 à 13 % de l’humanité, sont surreprésentés dans les sports de combat. Pourtant, au cours des siècles, le fait d’être gaucher a été associé à la malchance, à la maladresse, à la sorcellerie et à la diablerie. Les styles d’escrime historiques et les manuscrits qui les expliquent ont été élaborés à l’intention de droitiers qui combattaient des adversaires eux aussi droitiers. Les versions réinventées de ces arts mart…
Teo, S. (2021). Chinese martial arts film and the philosophy of action . London: Routledge, 164 pages
Diffusion, transformation and hybridization: Taijiquan body culture in the United Kingdom
This study analyzes texts in British books, journals, newspapers, magazines, and websites alongside field research, interviews and visits to training institutions to document the history and expansion of Taijiquan (also known as Tai Chi) in the United Kingdom (UK). By applying Eichberg's “body cultures” model and suggested methodology, this paper explores the spread and change of Taijiquan, and the communication-based dynamics of its diffusion an…
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