Performing arts, 417–422
and Asia, 419–422
and China, 420
and India, 420–421, 422
and Japan, 420
and technique, 417
and the West, 419, 421–422
See alsoAfrica and African
America; Capoeira;
Form/xing/kata/pattern practice;
Japan; Kalarippayattu; Mongolia;
Thang-ta
Perkins, Anthony, 152
Perpetual societies, 388, 389–390
Perry, Commodore, 192, 819
Persatuan Pentjak Silat Selurah
Indonesia (PPSI), 529, 543
Pertubohan Selendang Merah,
438–439
Pestalozzi, Johann Heinrich, 478
Peter the Great, 114
Petters, Nicolaes, 113
Pham Xuan Tong, 549–550
Philip II, 78, 426
Philip IV, 79, 454
Philippe II, 273
Philippe IV, 376
Philippe VI, 393
Philippe “the Good,” 284, 394
Philippines, 422–434
geography of, 423
and Japan, 426
and silat, 524, 530–531
and United States, 426
See alsoSilat; Southeast Asia
Phormion of Halikarnassos, 790
Phra Chao Seua, Prince, 546, 813
Physical Culture and Sports
Commission, 30, 33, 70
Physical education, 825
and China, 827
and Germany, 481
and Japan, 481
Physical education departments, 820
Physical Training for Women by
Japanese Methods(Hancock), 685
Physical Training for Women, 685
Piano duels, 97–98
Pierre I, 393, 397
Pillatanni, 227
Pimiko, Queen, 181
Pinkney, Miss, 680
Pisan, Christine de, 670
Pistols, 806, 819
Pizarro, Francisco, 805
Plains Indians
and dueling, 102The Plainsman,149–150
Planas, Richard “Huk,” 259
Plato, 411, 416, 417
Plumadore, Red, 739
Plutarch, 534–535, 665
Poddubnaya, Masha, 680, 737–
738
Poddubny, Ivan, 680, 738
Pofa (breaking), 28
Point and Circle Principle, 160–161
Polearms
Japanese, 191
Poled weapons
and China, 69
Police Athletic League
and boxing, 46
Police departments
and women, 680
Police Gazette, 684
Police training, 83, 87–89, 821
and aikidô, 828
and China, 89
and England, 88
and Filipino martial arts, 434
Japan, 87–89, 821
and jûdô, 87
and krav maga, 312
and savate, 521
and United States, 87
and wrestling, 87
See alsoCombatives: Military and
police martial arts training
Political conflict
and folk belief, 133
Political conflict and the martial arts,
435–442. See alsoAfrica and
African America; Capoeira;
China; Folklore in the martial
arts; Korea; Okinawa; Silat;
Southeast Asia; Taekwondo;
Vovinam-Viet Vo Dao; Yongchun
(wing chun)
Political theater
and social uses of the martial arts,
535
Politics
Japanese, 181–190
and women, 670
Polo, Marco, 669, 800
Polo, women’s, 667
Polydeukes, 788
Polynesia
and warfare, 403–404
Pons, Paul, 738
Pontifical(Durand), 76
Poor Knights of Christ of the Temple
of Solomon, 272874 Index