Popol Vuh by Dennis Tedlock

Popol Vuh by Dennis Tedlock

The reawakening of Asian martial arts is a distinct example of cultural hybridity in a global setting. This book deals with history of Asian martial arts in the contexts of tradition, religion, philosophy, politics and culture. It attempts to deepen the study of martial arts studies in their transformation from traditional to modern sports. It is also important that this book explores how Asian martial arts, including Shaolin martial arts and Taekwondo, have worked as tools for national advocate of identities among Asians in order to overcome various national hardships and to promote nationalism in the modern eras. The Asian martial arts certainly have been transformed in both nature and content into unique modern sports and they have contributed to establishing cultural homogeneity in Asia. This phenomenon can be applied to the global community. 　

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Dennis Tedlock is a Research Associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe and a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2006, PEN New Mexico honored him and his wife, distinguished anthropologist Barbara Tedlock, with the Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award.