Preserved in music, dance, and art--as well as in ritual, tribal law, and mythology--the fighting arts of the Indonesian archipelago play a central role in Indo

The fighting arts of Indonesia, a mix of pentjak silat and Chinese kuntao, were never meant for sport: they are brutal, unrelenting and designed to take the ene

This study examines the Indonesian martial arts pencak silat as media practices. The author delineates embodied and disembodied media practices to analyze the d

The Indonesian talent for harmoniously blending indigenous styles with the arts of the Asian mainland has given rise to fighting arts that are among the most fa

With a wealth of information about an array of performance genres related to the fighting art of pencak silat, this volume articulates for the very first time f