Fighting for honor : the history of African martial art traditions in the Atlantic world /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of South Carolina Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: divining an approach
- Birth of traditions
- From across the Kalunga: pastoral pugilism in southern Angola to 1860
- Bloodless duels: combative custom in Biafra to 1860
- Across the Kalunga
- Enslaved honor: the utility of martial art in North America
- Return passages: ritual and revolutionary liberation from bondage in the francophone Caribbean
- Urban inversions: combat societies in Rio de Janeiro
- Conclusion: embodied traditions.