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nese martial arts. The latter theory is supported by the waves of immigra- tion that are thought to have occurred in Filipino hi ...

Social Uses of the Martial Arts Individuals study martial arts for a variety of reasons. Examples include body sculpting, bullyi ...

and were now names for the war memorial; it was just that there was noth- ing to be said” (1995, 88–89). Group solidarity.Immigr ...

chose the former, and as a result became the short-lived (but famous) hero of Homer’s Iliad.Meanwhile fights, duels, and homicid ...

“Philopoemen,” the Roman moralist Plutarch wrote that the athletic body and lifestyle were different in every way from the milit ...

on fancier games than they could possibly afford. Thus Romans staged gladiatorial contests in which expensive slaves were killed ...

References Alford, Violet. 1962. Sword Dance and Drama.London: Merlin Press. Allen, Charles, and Sharada Dwivedi. 1985. Lives of ...

Niiya, Brian, ed. 2000. More Than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community.Los Angeles: Japanese American National Museu ...

The earliest history of the region (from Chinese sources) notes an In- dian presence in Annam (coastal “Indochina”), Cambodia, a ...

lapse of empires such as the Pagan and realignments such as those in In- donesia that gave rise to other states such as the Maja ...

been effected. Struggles between Siam and Burma continued well into the nineteenth century, while within Burma itself the Thai S ...

stances than any known arts of India. While it is clear from the historical record that Chinese contact began as early as the st ...

tions, silat has been an element of local celebrations (e.g., weddings, village festivals). The prominence of aesthetic factors ...

Malay and Indonesian weapons such as the kris. Modern bersilat, however, exists in two forms: silat pulut,a dancelike performanc ...

Lethwei/lethawae (Burmese “boxing”) shares many characteristics with Muay Thai(Thailand). As in Muay Thai, kicks, including knee ...

Thailand Muay Thai is the most widely recognized of the martial arts of Thailand. In its contemporary form Muay Thai, or Thai bo ...

and unlike contemporary Krabi krabong practitioners, he fought while mounted on an elephant. The curriculum of Krabi-krabong con ...

with skills perpetuated orally by transmission from teacher to student. The aura of secrecy that often attends martial arts was ...

modeled on the spurring talons of the fighting cock, as well as high-jump kicks to the upper torso or head, a feature that appea ...

ported to have been incorporated into the art to supplement this funda- mentally Chinese structure. A countertradition maintains ...