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Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art in the Atlantic World (Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World),Used
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A groundbreaking investigation into the migration of martial arts techniques across continents and centuriesThe presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. DeschObi explores another cultural continuity that is as old as eighteenthcentury slave settlements in South America and as contemporary as hiphop culture. In this thorough survey of the history of African martial arts techniques, DeschObi maps the translation of numerous physical combat techniques across three continents and several centuries to illustrate how these practices evolved over time and are still recognizable in American culture today. Some of these art traditions were part of African military training while others were for selfdefense and spiritual discipline.Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological methodologies, DeschObi's investigation traces the influence of welldelineated African traditions on longobserved but misunderstood African and African American cultural activities in North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. He links the Brazilian martial art capoeira to reports of slave activities recorded in colonial and antebellum North America. Likewise DeschObi connects images of the kalenda African stickfighting techniques to the Haitian Revolution. Throughout the study DeschObi examines the ties between physical mastery of these arts and changing perceptions of honor.Including fortyfive illustrations, this rich history of the arrival and dissemination of African martial arts in the Atlantic world offers a new vantage for furthering our understanding of the powerful influence of enslaved populations on our collective social history.
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