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1998 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
History Of

A History of Young People in the West. Volume 1, Ancient and Medieval Rites of Passage

1998 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 846
Author(s):  
John R. Gillis ◽  
Giovanni Levi ◽  
Jean-Claude Schmitt ◽  
Camille Naish ◽  
Carol Volk
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The sportification of judo: global convergence and evolution

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Sato
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Global Convergence ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Olympic Sport

AbstractThis article re-examines our understanding of modern sport. Today, various physical cultures across the world are practised under the name of sport. Almost all of these sports originated in the West and expanded to the rest of the world. However, the history of judo confounds the diffusionist model. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a Japanese educationalist amalgamated different martial arts and established judo not as a sport but as ‘a way of life’. Today it is practised globally as an Olympic sport. Focusing on the changes in its rules during this period, this article demonstrates that the globalization of judo was accompanied by a constant evolution of its character. The overall ‘sportification’ of judo took place not as a diffusion but as a convergence – a point that is pertinent to the understanding of the global sportification of physical cultures, and also the standardization of cultures in modern times.

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