Fighting for honor
Subtitle: the history of African martial art traditions in the Atlantic world
By: T.J. Desch Obi.
Series: Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781570037184
Subjects: Martial arts -- Africa.; Martial arts -- North America.; Martial arts -- South America.; Martial arts -- History.; Martial arts -- Anthropological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: divining an approach; value: Birth of traditions; value: From across the Kalunga: pastoral pugilism in southern Angola to 1860; value: Bloodless duels: combative custom in Biafra to 1860; value: Across the Kalunga; value: Enslaved honor: the utility of martial art in North America; value: Return passages: ritual and revolutionary liberation from bondage in the francophone Caribbean; value: Urban inversions: combat societies in Rio de Janeiro; value: Conclusion: embodied traditions.