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Fighting for Honor - The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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Fighting for Honor - The History of African Martial Arts in the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
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Desch Obi explores a cultural continuity originating in Africa and
that is as old as early slave settlements in South America and as
contemporary as hip-hop culture in this thorough survey of the
history of African martial arts techniques. He 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 self-defense and personal discipline. Desch Obi,
himself a practitioner of mgba wrestling and engolo kick-fighting,
also explores the spiritual dimensions of these combat
arts.Grounded in historical and cultural anthropological
methodologies, Desch Obi's investigation traces the influence of
well-delineated African traditions on long-observed 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, Desch Obi locates
images of the African stick-fighting techniques of kalenda in slave
depictions. His study takes on more modern subjects when he links
movements from this same wellspring of traditions to break dancing
and clown dancing techniques that have peppered urban culture in
recent decades. Throughout the study Desch Obi examines the ties
between physical mastery of these arts and changing perceptions of
honor.
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