The Malay Art Of Self Defense

Author : Sheikh Shamsuddin
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9781556435621

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The Malay Art of Self-Defense by Sheikh Shamsuddin Pdf

Silat Seni Gayong is an art of self-defense, a fighting art but one that also emphasizes the development of the self, becoming a better person, and serving humanity. Sometimes compared to a tiger ready to devour its prey, Gayong helps practitioners develop and increase physical fitness, flexibility, mental conditioning, and self-confidence. Author Sheikh Shamsuddin, who has studied Gayong for 25 years, introduces this little-known practice to Western readers in this first book on the subject in English. The most comprehensive study in any language on Gayong and its customs, The Malay Art of Self-Defense explores in depth the system, techniques, crucial elements, and philosophies involved. Also covered are the art's history, profiles of the most notable practitioners, and an informative Q&A collected from various martial art practitioners to expand readers' knowledge and appreciation. Included are photos of Gayong demonstrations, traditional training centers, customs, and events.

Author : Sheikh Shamsuddin
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1556435622

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The Malay Art of Self-Defense by Sheikh Shamsuddin Pdf

Silat Seni Gayong is an art of self-defense, a fighting art but one that also emphasizes the development of the self, becoming a better person, and serving humanity. Sometimes compared to a tiger ready to devour its prey, Gayong helps practitioners develop and increase physical fitness, flexibility, mental conditioning, and self-confidence. Author Sheikh Shamsuddin, who has studied Gayong for 25 years, introduces this little-known practice to Western readers in this first book on the subject in English. The most comprehensive study in any language on Gayong and its customs, The Malay Art of Self-Defense explores in depth the system, techniques, crucial elements, and philosophies involved. Also covered are the art's history, profiles of the most notable practitioners, and an informative Q&A collected from various martial art practitioners to expand readers' knowledge and appreciation. Included are photos of Gayong demonstrations, traditional training centers, customs, and events.

Author : Ahmad bin Ku Mustaffa (Ku.),Kiew Kit Wong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental
ISBN : 0195803884

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Silat Melayu by Ahmad bin Ku Mustaffa (Ku.),Kiew Kit Wong Pdf

Author : Douglas S. Farrer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781402093562

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Shadows of the Prophet by Douglas S. Farrer Pdf

This is the first in-depth study of the Malay martial art, silat, and the first ethnographic account of the Haqqani Islamic Sufi Order. Drawing on 12 years of research and practice, the author provides a major contribution to the study of Malay culture.

Author : Thomas A. Green,Joseph R. Svinth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598842449

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Martial Arts of the World [2 volumes] by Thomas A. Green,Joseph R. Svinth Pdf

This book is the most comprehensive and authoritative reference ever published on the wide range of martial arts disciplines practiced in cultures around the world. ABC-CLIO's Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia of History and Innovation is the most authoritative reference ever published on combat disciplines from around the world and across history. Coverage includes Shaolin monks, jousting knights, Roman gladiators, Westerner gunfighters, samurai warriors, and heavyweight boxers. These iconic figures and many more are featured in this title, as well as representatives of less well known but no less fascinating systems, all vividly characterized by expert contributors from around the world who are themselves martial arts practitioners. Martial Arts of the World comprises 120 entries in two volumes. The first volume is organized geographically to explore the historic development of martial arts styles in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The second volume looks at martial arts thematically, with coverage of belief systems, modern martial arts competitions, and a wide range of such topics as folklore, women in martial arts, martial arts and the military, and martial arts and the media.

Author : Terry E. Miller,Sean Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351544207

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The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Terry E. Miller,Sean Williams Pdf

The first complete music reference for the region, this volume covers all the nations of modern Southeast Asia: Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines in thirty-five articles, written by twenty-seven expert contributors.

Author : Faridah Abdul Rashid
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477159941

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Biography Of The Early Malay Doctors 1900-1957 Malaya And Singapore by Faridah Abdul Rashid Pdf

I really applaud your efforts. It s really diffi cult to do a book like that. - WAZIR Thanks again for your immense work, my family and I are indeed extremely grateful. - AZLAN Your effort in writing about the early Muslim doctors is very commendable and would be good for present and future generations to read about. - TAHIR You are doing valuable work by fi lling in the gaps in our history. I wish more of our retirees would impart their memories to repositories of knowledge such as the USM. - TAWFIK

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004308756

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The Fighting Art of Pencak Silat and its Music by Anonim Pdf

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 fascinating dimensions of the beauty, philosophy and diversity of Southeast Asian cultural life.

Author : Patrick Keilbart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793627162

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Martial Arts in Indonesian Cinema and Television by Patrick Keilbart Pdf

This book studies the Indonesian martial art Pencak Silat and related media practices, and, building on that, assesses mediatization processes, meaning the potential influence of technology-based media practices. Pencak Silat represents a cultural system of values and beliefs, with hierarchical structures and relations, and social advancement being mediated in embodied social learning. The study contributes to martial arts studies and media studies, demonstrating potentials and limitations of media technologies and their (dis-)embodiment – their extension or reduction of the body as medium, and their embeddedness in or detachment from a given socio-cultural context. With Pencak Silat being practiced all over Indonesia, by a large part of the population, the thesis also represents a contribution to Indonesian studies. Based on extensive fieldwork (between 2008 and 2016), the study analyzes martial arts and/as media in Indonesia, and presents an ethnography of Pencak Silat and mediatization.

Author : Diyana Sulaiman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781040022320

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Legal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage by Diyana Sulaiman Pdf

The book examines whether the protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) by Indonesia and Malaysia upheld the interests of the various communities from which the cultural heritage originates, and whether the laws recognise that cultural heritage is often shared with other states and communities. The legal classifications of various indigenous communities and the interpretations of ‘indigeneity’ in the two countries have presented problems in the context of ICH protection. The state is regarded as holding the intellectual property rights for some forms of ICH and this also posed problems in the implementation of the laws to protect the communities’ ICH. This book employs a community-based perspective and adopts a multidisciplinary approach in exploring questions of the rights to and benefits of heritage. This book will be useful for students, academics and policy makers with an interest in international law, heritage and intellectual property rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135901554

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The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 687 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538108857

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Historical Dictionary of Malaysia by Ooi Keat Gin Pdf

Malaysia is one of the most intriguing countries in Asia in many respects. It consists of several distinct areas, not only geographically but ethnically as well; along with Malays and related groups, the country has a very large Indian and Chinese population. The spoken languages obviously vary at home, although Bahasa Malaysia is the official language and nearly everyone speaks English. There is also a mixture of religions, with Islam predominating among the Malays and others, Hinduism and Sikhism among the Indians, mainly Daoism and Confucianism among the Chinese, but also some Christians as well as older indigenous beliefs in certain places. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Malaysia contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Malaysia.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300153620

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Weapons of the Weak by James C. Scott Pdf

Weapons of the Weak is an ethnography by James C. Scott that studies the effects of the Green Revolution in rural Malaysia. One of the main objectives of the study is to make an argument that the Marxian and Gramscian ideas of false consciousness and hegemony are incorrect. He develops this conclusion throughout the book, through the different scenarios and characters that come up during his time of fieldwork in the village. This publication, based on 2 years of fieldwork (1978-1980), focuses on the local class relations in a small rice farming community of 70 households in the main paddy-growing area of Kedah in Malaysia. Introduction of the Green Revolution in 1976 eliminated 2/3 of the wage-earning opportunities for smallholders and landless laborers. The main ensuing class struggle is analyzed being the ideological struggle in the village and the practice of resistance itself consisting of: foot-dragging, dissimulation, desertion, false compliance, pilfering, feigned ignorance and sabotage acts. Rich and poor are engaged in an unremitting if silent struggle to define changes in land tenure, mechanization and employment to advance their own interests, and to use values that they share to control the distribution of status, land, work and grain.

Author : Ken McLeod
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317000099

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We are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music by Ken McLeod Pdf

Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each other's performative strategies and stylistic content. Typically only studied as separate entities, popular music and sport cultures mutually 'play' off each other in exchanges of style, ideologies and forms. Posing unique challenges to notions of mind - body dualities, nationalism, class, gender, and racial codes and sexual orientation, Dr Ken McLeod illuminates the paradoxical and often conflicting relationships associated with these modes of leisure and entertainment and demonstrates that they are not culturally or ideologically distinct but are interconnected modes of contemporary social practice. Examples include how music is used to enhance sporting events, such as anthems, chants/cheers, and intermission entertainment, music that is used as an active part of the athletic event, and music that has been written about or that is associated with sports. There are also connections in the use of music in sports movies, television and video games and important, though critically under-acknowledged, similarities regarding spectatorship, practice and performance. Despite the scope of such confluences, the extraordinary impact of the interrelationship of music and sports on popular culture has remained little recognized. McLeod ties together several influential threads of popular culture and fills a significant void in our understanding of the construction and communication of identity in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Author : R. S. Milne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429717727

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Malaysia by R. S. Milne Pdf

Malaysia has many problems in common with other developing countries—including the difficult task of achieving economic progress and modernization while retaining useful traditional values, reducing poverty, and minimizing dependence on the export of a few primary products. It also has a remarkable, if not unique, diversity of cultures. Its ethnic divisions (approximately 47 percent Malay 34 percent Chinese, 9 percent Indian, and 10 percent "other") are deep, reflecting differences in race, language, culture, and religion. At present, the main danger of serious ethnic tension arises from the impact of the Islamic resurgence. The Malays, who are dominant politically, are Muslims, but very few Chinese, the second largest ethnic group, are Muslims. It is especially remarkable, given this ethnic mix, that Malaya (which became Malaysia in 1963) achieved independence peacefully (in 1957), has experienced no military coups or takeovers, and has regularly held elections. This book examines Malaysia's history, population, social structure, politics, and economics as well as its climate, agriculture, and wildlife and seeks to explain why, despite its inherent ethnic tensions, Malaysia has survived and even prospered.