2021
DOI: 10.1177/14661381211035482
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‘A Punch Has No Paternity!’: techniques, belonging and the Mexicanidad of Xilam

Abstract: This article combines ethnographic and netnographic data to explore the relationships between body techniques and a sense of belonging through the contemporary Mexican martial art of Xilam. This art, founded by a female Mexican martial arts veteran, is slowly developing as a hand-to-hand sport, and has attracted critics for its supposed use of East Asian fighting techniques. Netnographic data reveal online debates on the origins and ‘true belonging’ of specific techniques while ethnographic fieldwork in a Xila… Show more

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