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Wrestling exists in many forms. There are sportive forms, in which the practitioners attempt to compete for points before judges ...

basic wrestling throws. In addition, these creatures attempt to entangle the limbs of their opponents. It is worth speculating t ...

ture generations of students, it is one of the oldest textbooks in the world. Many of the images clearly refer to techniques tha ...

forms in Western cultures. When the Olympic Games were initiated, wrestling was one of the original events, as was boxing. When ...

the Roman world. The Romans added no innovations to Greek wrestling; they used the techniques that had been developed over the p ...

The Italians, as well, developed wrestling styles and grappling systems for combat. In one of the most famous treatises of the l ...

the more than 300 nationalities of the Soviet Union, and elements of Japa- nese jûdô. Sport sambo allows throws, holds, leg and ...

age” of American wrestling is the gaudy showmanship and theater of make- believe “professional” wrestling, currently touted as “ ...

world narrows into a global village these forms of wrestling will cease to be practiced. Yet, even with this possibility, the gr ...

may almost speak of “wrestling in India” rather than Indian wrestling as such. Thus the term kushti,which means “wrestling,” den ...

dandsand bethaks.Each of these “tra- ditional” features is thoroughly modern and contextualized by changing, rather than stable, ...

It is difficult, if not impossible, to know whether there have been var- ious alternatives to, or distinct stages between, the m ...

the rhetoric associated with wrestling, the gymnasium is said to reproduce the natural and authentic qualities of village life. ...

gives his chelas (disciples) instructions on training, self-discipline, tech- nique, and overall development. However, a guru is ...

In some sense, the characteristic features of a dangal (tournament) de- fine a wrestler in India as a pahalwan, but only to the ...

champions in order to enhance the prestige of the event. The rationale for organizing a dangal is nam kamana(making a name for o ...

Competitive Politics in North India.” Contributions to Indian Sociology 29, nos. 1 and 2: 109–131. ———. 1993. “The Sannyasi and ...

Although it is connected in oral tradition to the Shaolin arts, the Chi- nese grappling system of qinna(ch’in na) probably exist ...

century A.D., mentions sumô in its descriptions of the legendary origins of Japan. Sumô attained a ritual association with the p ...

Until the end of the sixteenth century, wrestling sometimes took the form of no-holds-barred competitions that included both pun ...