The Martial Arts Studies Reader

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