Goals 2018-06-08 finish Section 2 of 4
Just going to try and finish this Section and not get distracted by creating content for other sections or chapters.
Karate as Global Assemblage, an Introduction
My name is Noah Johnson and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. My research explores the place of karate, a now quite well-known martial art of Okinawan origin, in the lives of its practitioners in the United States of America. This page details my dissertation research and writing concerning the ways that karate practitioners in "the West" make use of their martial art in their everyday lives. By necessity, this study is thus a study of “globalization,” for karate is only available to those in what is termed “the West” (or the developed nations of Europe and of her settler colonies such as Canada, Australia, and of course the United States) through the transnational connections of transport, information, and commerce which make up globalization. But globalization is a slippery concept. Nothing is truly global in its reach and spread, not to mention the fact that every time a seemingly similar form appears somewhere sp...
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