A Different Kind of Race Horse races are strongholds of pageantry and tradition, but when it comes to medieval texture, few can compare with the Palio di Siena. Oddly, any footage of the event reminds me of a critical... Continue Reading →
An Eternal Debate Some of the most persistent, and for students of Martial Arts Studies most significant, issues revolve around the choices individuals are forced to make. I was introduced to Wing Chun in what I would characterize... Continue Reading →
***I am current on the road for the annual Martial Arts Studies conference at Cardiff University in the UK. As soon as I return home I will be posting a full report of the event and sharing the text... Continue Reading →
A Dance Studio in a Galaxy Far, Far Away “You, put your phone down!” I looked around, unsure about the sudden exclamation from the instructor who had just been summing up the essential concepts of the drills... Continue Reading →
“No man can do justice to another’s human total.” -Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols (1967, p. 150). Introduction If culture is understood as a system of interlocking signs, a complex of meanings, beliefs and practices that... Continue Reading →
Men fighting men to determine worth (i.e., masculinity) excludes women as completely as the female experience of childbirth excludes men….The female boxer violates this stereotype and cannot be taken seriously—she is parody, she is cartoon, she is monstrous. Had... Continue Reading →
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