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What would the Marshal do?: Historical heroes as role models in contemporary martial arts

open access: yesRevista de Artes Marciales Asiáticas
Many martial arts systems have their own revered heroes, such as mythical founders and leaders of notable schools. The paper draws on ethnographic research conducted on The Blade Academy, an expanding historical European martial arts (HEMA) school in the
George Jennings, Sara Delamont
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Doing Autoethnography, Teaching Autoethnography as a White Woman Architect‐Educator‐Researcher in South Africa

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This autoethnographic study lies at the intersection of architectural, teaching and research practice through the lens of an architect‐teacher‐researcher working in post‐Apartheid South Africa. The research traces a shift from unconscious design practice to a more conscious, critical and careful practice through practice‐based design research ...
Sandra Felix
wiley   +1 more source

A ‘narrow world, strewn with prohibitions’: Chang Cheh’s The Assassin and the 1967 Hong Kong riots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Chang Cheh is one of the most influential directors in Hong Kong martial-arts cinema, and his film Da cike/The Assassin is a significant work produced at a key moment both in Chang’s early career and in the development of the increasingly violent 1960s ...
White, Luke
core   +1 more source

Organizational Soundscapes and the Sonicity of Voices: The Power of the ‘Sounds’ that Carry ‘Words’

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Organizations are soundscapes – they resonate with sounds and particularly the sounds of voices. Somehow however voice sonics, that is the sounds of voices and not the words carried on those sounds, have escaped attention in management studies. This absence of analysis is peculiar given voice sonics' undoubted influence on management (they may
Nancy Harding, Jackie Ford
wiley   +1 more source

Maori Arts as film art: an analysis of ritual and myth in Whale Rider, Once Were Warriors and Te Rua [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper analyses three key films of the Maori Renaissance, which, in addition to being art forms in themselves, depict ritual song, traditional dance, martial arts, tattoos, carvings, and mythical storytelling.
Child, Louise
core   +1 more source

Physical ability of the individual as a needed market factor in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
According to the criterion of physical ability any state considers a person as a source of wealth and economic growth, industry and economic sector – as a personification of productive power and profit, and business – as a resource for productive ...
Britchenko, Igor, Vladyslav, Saienko
core  

Culture Moves? The Festival of Pacific Arts and Dance Remix in Oceania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This reflective essay is a journey through my dance studies work with a discussion on the role of the Festival of Pacific Arts in shaping dance in Oceania, and particularly its impact on Banaban dance from Rabi in Fiji.
Teaiwa, Katerina
core  

Editorial: New research on Japanese Martial Arts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This editorial introduces this guest-edited special themed issue, which focuses on new research on the Japanese martial arts. This collection has been assembled by Michael Molasky from Waseda University, Tokyo, who convened a research group of innovative
Bowman, Paul, Judkins, Benjamin
core   +2 more sources

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

The Tree of Chivalry and the Black Lady: Juana of Castile's 1496 Joyous Entry into Brussels☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Kupferstichkabinett MS 78D5 (Staatliche Museen Berlin) presents an iconographic account of the Joyous Entry of Juana of Castile into Brussels on 9 December 1496. In this article, we newly identify a rare visual record of a civic contribution to a tournament within the manuscript.
Nadia T. van Pelt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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