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"What is the essence of martial arts? What is their place in or relationship with culture and society? Deconstructing Martial Arts analyses familiar issues and debates that arise in scholarly, practitioner and popular cultural discussions and treatments of martial arts and argues that martial arts are dynamic and variable constructs whose meanings and values regularly shift, mutate and transform, depending on the context. It argues that deconstructing martial arts is an invaluable approach to both the scholarly study of martial arts in culture and society and also to wider understandings of what and why martial arts are. Placing martial arts in relation to core questions and concerns of media and cultural studies around identity, value, orientalism, and embodiment, Deconstructing Martial Arts introduces and elaborates deconstruction as a rewarding method of cultural studies."
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Keywords
- Alternative belief systems
- Cultural Studies
- Culture
- Deconstruction
- embodiment
- Humanities
- ideology
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Knowledge
- Martial arts
- Philosophy
- Popular culture
- popular philosophy
- Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects
- Religion & beliefs
- Semiotics / semiology
- Social & political philosophy
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTD Semiotics / semiology
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
- thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDX Popular philosophy
- thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRY Alternative belief systems
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DOI: 10.18573/book1web: http://www.cardiffuniversitypress.org/site/books/m/10.18573/book1/
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