The Codification of Martial Arts
Gaudin, Benoît
The Codification of Martial Arts - 2009.
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This paper seeks to provide a structural interpretation of one-on-one combat, a category that comprises all the fighting, boxing, martial or dueling techniques, as well as combat sports and other combat or combat-like activities. It seeks to counter indigenous discourses that present such fights either as ethnological islands, unsullied relics of a mythical past, or even syntheses of efficient fighting techniques. In order to do so, it describes the transformations that these activities have undergone, individually or collectively, since real fights have been converted a long time ago into codified ones, up until the recent quests of authenticity and/or expediency. Whether they obey economic, political, pedagogical or sportive logics, these transformations and their sequence shed some light on the numerous interactions between these practices, but also on the different references through which they challenge the model of modern sport.
The Codification of Martial Arts - 2009.
87
This paper seeks to provide a structural interpretation of one-on-one combat, a category that comprises all the fighting, boxing, martial or dueling techniques, as well as combat sports and other combat or combat-like activities. It seeks to counter indigenous discourses that present such fights either as ethnological islands, unsullied relics of a mythical past, or even syntheses of efficient fighting techniques. In order to do so, it describes the transformations that these activities have undergone, individually or collectively, since real fights have been converted a long time ago into codified ones, up until the recent quests of authenticity and/or expediency. Whether they obey economic, political, pedagogical or sportive logics, these transformations and their sequence shed some light on the numerous interactions between these practices, but also on the different references through which they challenge the model of modern sport.
Réseaux sociaux