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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Engolo: Combat traditions in African and African diaspora history Abstract: A rich and complex heritage of combat traditions originated in Africa. This dissertation explores the social history of African martial traditions and their extension into the New World. The first section focuses on two of the many combat arts of Africa. It begins with the engolo of southern Angola, a form of kicking, tripping, and evasions that can been seen as representative of a wider Bantu pugilistic system. The history of the engolo is considered in terms of the changing social history of the region from its early settlement by Bantu speakers (c.1000AD) to the end of the transatlantic slave trade around 1860. The second half of the African section focuses on Igbo mgba , one of many wrestling styles in a larger West African grappling system and a more specific system stressing leg-wrapping techniques. The history of the mgba is addressed in terms of Igbo social systems and the slaving patterns that ravaged the Bight of Biafra. |
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