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Author Desch-Obi, M. Thomas J.

Title Fighting for honor : the history of African martial art traditions in the Atlantic world / T.J. Desch Obi.

Imprint Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  796.8109 D454f 2008    ---  Available
Description xi, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Martial arts -- Africa.
Martial arts -- North America.
Martial arts -- South America.
Martial arts -- History.
Martial arts -- Anthropological aspects.
ISBN 9781570037184 (cloth : alk. paper)
1570037183 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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