Asian culture and religions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Edmund Kee-Fook Chia
Keyword(s):  
Asian Culture

scholarly journals El impacto del tigre en las artes marciales chinas

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Wing Lam ◽  
Saleem Alamudeen
Keyword(s):  
Martial Arts ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Asian Culture ◽  
Asian Community ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Strange Duality

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Asia, there is, in general, a great reverence held for the tiger. The tiger has been imitated and reigns supreme as king of all the beasts throughout Asia. The relationship between man and tiger holds a strange duality in that as much as the tiger is feared for its fierce savagery and destructive power, it is also revered for these very same qualities and for its majestic nature. Therefore, the very symbolic essence of the tiger has permeated all levels of the Asian community and culture; art, mythology, religion, astrology, herbology, and military fighting strategies. The purpose of this article is to show the many rich aspects that the tiger exhibits, and its influence and impact on Asian culture and Chinese martial arts in particular. Martial arts such as Cantonese Hung Gar (Hong Family) and Hasayfu Hung Gar (Hong Family Four Lower Tigers) dedicate a portion of their systems to achieving awesome strength and speed, and to imitating the tiger’s physical prowess. By doing so, they may achieve higher levels of effectiveness within the martial arts.</span></span></span></p>

Tradition as Argument

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-152
Author(s):  
Richard Fox
Keyword(s):  
Human Action ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Asian Culture

This chapter argues for the idea of tradition as the temporal condition of practice. It is suggested that anthropologists and historians necessarily presuppose tradition – or something like it – when they set out to interpret other people’s practices as reasonable human action. The chapter reviews positive, genealogical and operationalized models of tradition, as applied to Southeast Asian culture and society. But each comes up wanting. So, as an alternative, the chapter returns to MacIntyre to examine his approach to tradition as an ‘argument extended through time’. This account of tradition is considered with specific reference to a public ritual-cum-parade called the Grebeg Aksara, which was organized by the Balinese scholar and public intellectual, Ida Wayan Oka Granoka. As with MacIntyre’s account of practice (Chapter 5), the ethnography seems to suggest certain limitations in his approach to tradition.

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