Out Now: The Martial Arts Studies Reader

Paul Bowman <[email protected]>
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Dear All,

I am delighted to announce that The Martial Arts Studies Reader <https://rowmaninternational.com/buy-books/product-details/?productId=3-156-65494638-21b3-43a4-a254-f2bda5cd022b> is out now, published by Rowman & Littlefield in the Martial Arts Studies book series.


Table of Contents

Introduction: What, Where and Why is Martial Arts Studies?
Paul Bowman

Early Chinese Works on Martial Arts
Peter Lorge

The Battlefield and the Bedroom: Chinese Martial Arts and Art of the Bedchamber
Douglas Wile

Martial Arts by the Book: Historical European Martial Arts
Daniel Jaquet

The Phone Book Project: Tracing the Diffusion of Asian Martial Arts in America Through the Yellow Pages
Michael Molasky

Martial Arts, Media, and (Material) Religion
Esther Berg-Chan

Liminoid Longings and Liminal Belonging: Hyper-reality, History and the Search for Meaning in the Modern Martial Arts.
Benjamin N. Judkins

‘He’s an Animal’: Naturalizing the Hyperreal in Modern Combat Sport
Janet O’Shea

Martial Arts as a Coping Strategy for Violence
Sixt Wetzler

Performance Ethnography
D. S. Farrer

Martial Arts Studies and the Sociology of Gender: Theory, Research and Pedagogical Application
Alex Channon

Masculinities, Bodies, and Martial Arts
Dale C. Spencer

Martial Arts as Embodied, Discursive, and Aesthetic Practice
Tim Trausch

Carnival of the Drunken Master: The Politics of the Kung Fu Comedic Body
Luke White

Learning from Martial Arts
Meaghan Morris and Paul Bowman


Paul
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Paul Bowman
Professor of Cultural Studies
Cardiff University, School of Journalism, Media and Culture

Address: Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff, CF10 1FS, UK
Profile: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/182916-bowman-paul



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