@article{ref1,
title="Constructing a martial tradition: Rethinking a popular history of karate-dou",
journal="Journal of sport and social issues",
year="2004",
author="Tan, Kevin S. Y.",
volume="28",
number="2",
pages="169-192",
abstract="This article seeks to explore and to rethink popular narratives that commonly surround the martial art known as karate. Adopting a dynamic and less exclusive definition of terms such as culture or tradition, I intend to provide a more critical and historically grounded understanding of karate's technical evolution and ideological foundations. In doing so, this will reveal that contemporary and popular perceptions of karate as a &quot;martial tradition&quot; are more historically complex and politically contingent than what has often been widely accepted.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0193-7235",
doi="10.1177/0193723504264772",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723504264772"
}