Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge

D. S. Farrer is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Guam and the author of Shadows of the Prophet: Martial Arts and Sufi Mysticism. John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore and the editor of several books, including (with Gary Storhoff) American Buddhism as a Way of Life, also published by SUNY Press.

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Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Martial Arts, Transnationalism, and Embodied Knowledge
D. S. Farrer and John Whalen-Bridge

Part I: Embodied Fantasy

2. Some Versions of the Samurai: The Budō Core of DeLillo’s Running Dog
John Whalen-Bridge

3. The Fantasy Corpus of Martial Arts, or, The “Communication” of Bruce Lee 
Paul Bowman

4. Body, Masculinity, and Representation in Chinese Martial Arts Films
Jie Lu

Part II: How the Social Body Trains

5. The Training of Perception in Javanese Martial Arts
Jean-Marc de Grave

6. Thai Boxing: Networking of a Polymorphous Clinch
Stéphane Rennesson

Part III: Transnational Self-Construction

7. From Floor to Stage: Kalarippayattu Travels
Martin Welton

8. The Oriental Martial Arts as Hybrid Totems, Together with Orientalized Avatars
Stephen Chan

9. Coffee-Shop Gods: Chinese Martial Arts of the Singapore Diaspora
D. S. Farrer

Contributors
Index