Out Now: Issue 4, Martial Arts Studies

I am delighted to announce that today is a day of two big events for martial arts studies: One is the opening of the third annual martial arts studies conference at Cardiff University. The second is the publication of issue four of the journal, Martial Arts Studies.

Martial Arts Studies, issue 4, Summer 2017, contains the following:

 

Editorial: Is Martial Arts Studies Trivial?

Paul Bowman and Benjamin N. Judkins

 

Fighting Words: Four New Document Finds Reignite Old Debates in Taijiquan Historiography

Douglas Wile

 

Virtually Legitimate: Using Disembodied Media to Position Oneself in an Embodied Community

Lauren Miller Griffith

 

Trans-regional continuities of fighting techniques in martial ritual initiations of the Malay world

Gabriel Facal

 

From Realism to Representativeness: Changing Terminology to Investigate Effectiveness in Self-Defence

Mario S. Staller, Benjamin Zaiser & Swen Körner

 

Review of Paul Bowman's Mythologies of Martial Arts

by Sixt Wetzler

 

Review of Lauren Miller Griffith's In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition

By Kyle Green

 

Review of Michael J. Ryan's Venezuelan Stick Fighting: The Civilizing Process in Martial Arts

By Benjamin N Judkins

I hope to see some of you at the conference over the next three days. For everyone else, enjoy the journal for now, and lookout for highlights and keynotes from the conference online in the coming weeks.