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

Author
Desch-Obi, M. Thomas J. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2008.
Description
xi, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338) 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.
ISBN
  • 9781570037184 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1570037183 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007043186
OCLC
177820081
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