Aryana Libris

Author : Draeger Donn F.
Title : The weapons and fighting arts of Indonesia
Year : 1972

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Authors's foreword. No Asian nation has come before the world devoid of combative skills. The present-day limitative study which has produced a combative horizon extending to only China, Japan, Korea, and Okinawa, is an oversight attitude both from the historical and technical standpoints. Weapons and fighting arts have been a legitimate and prominent part of all Asian cultures. The interrelationships among the combative cultures of all Asian nations are significant to a fuller comprehension of Asian history. In Indonesia, weapons and fighting arts are as old as the history of man. There are yet too many wide gaps between historically proven facts and time to completely understand the meanings of the combative culture of this vast and diverse land, the world's largest archipelago. But it is possible to piece together significant shreds of evidence by which the ancestral forms of the modern weapons and fighting arts can be related to the modern scene. ...