Karada de oboeru: the social learning of the fundamentals of Kendo
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https://doi.org/10.46661/socioldeporte.7508Keywords:
ethography, martial arts, habitus, budoAbstract
The body as a support of integrated somatic exprience with the mind has been studied in martial arts, but rarely in kendo (contemporary Japanese fencing), even less from a empirical standpoint regarding how it is performed in common practice. The ethnographic method was used during a period of special training at a dojo in Madrid (Spain), focusing on the interpretation of the learning of different kinds of fundamentals of kendo (kihon). It was observed that the “kendistic” habitus is shaped by interacctions among their participants which reinforce internal heirarchies and roles, the respect for procedural ettiquete (reigi) and the development of proper kihon fitting each practitioner. These elements are unfied through constant repetition which derived into a factual union of thought and corporeal action.
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