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, 2021 Malay martial arts, Silat becomes one of the national heritages, registered under Intangible Cultural Heritage. Silat is an art that exists in the Malay Archipelago.
Mohd Zaki, Ahmad
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Recentering the Cartographies of Karate : Martial Arts Tourism in Okinawa [PDF]
, 2021 Background. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the Okinawan Government has been making significant efforts to develop, professionalize, and promote karate tourism in Okinawa, since this is known to be an essential sector for the island's economy.
González de la Fuente, Eduardo
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Japanese Martial Arts for Wellbeing During COVID-19 [PDF]
, 2021 The unprecedented and uncertain times of the COVID-19 pandemic have changed our lifestyles significantly, with lockdowns and social distancing measures in place to reduce virus transmission.
Veasey, C. +2 more
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Embodied Research: An Epistemic Context for Martial Arts Practice
, 2016 This talk will place martial arts practice and studies in the context of an ongoing sea change in the university as a social institution. A generation of embodied practitioners — across the martial, healing, performing, ritual arts and more — is entering
Spatz, Ben
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Martial Arts Training Effects on Health Markers in Adolescents and Children: A Systematic Review [paper] [PDF]
, 2023 Introduction: Childhood obesity has been a growing concern over the past 50 years in the United States. Healthcare providers have extensively studied childhood obesity, yet the rates continue to rise.
Haertner, Micah
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Martial arts studies: disrupting disciplinary boundaries [PDF]
, 2015 The phrase “martial arts studies” is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest. But many academic fields including history, philosophy, anthropology, and Area studies already engage with martial arts in their own particular ...
Bowman, Paul
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Martial Arts in Postcolonial Times: Local Theories for Local Contexts [PDF]
, 2019 Background. Up to now, the social organisation and practise of the world’s ghting systems has been understood through estab- lished and popular trends in sociological theory developed primarily in Western Europe and North America. Problem and aim.
Jennings, George, Cynarski, Wojciech
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The physical and psychological benefits of martial arts training for individuals with disabilities [PDF]
, 2002 Plan BThe purpose of this study was to determine the physical and emotional benefits of martial arts training for persons with disabilities. Three specific research questions were asked: Does participation in martial arts training lead to a reduction in ...
Martin, Richard A.
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Aikidō and spirituality: Japanese religious influences in a martial art [PDF]
, 2003 This thesis examines spirituality in the Japanese martial art aikidō, which was created in the 1940s in Japan by Ueshiba Morihei. He described aikidō entirely in spiritual terms and claimed that it is an art of peace which leads religion to completion ...
Greenhalgh, Margaret
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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