When the body becomes all eyes : paradigms, discourses and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art / Phillip B. Zarrilli

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TextPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xxii, 310 pages : illustrationsContent type:

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Introduction : repositioning the body, practice, power and self

History, kingship and the heroic : Kalarippayattu and the invention of a past

The ritual life of the Kalari and its deities : protecting and empowering the body-in-practice

'First the outer forms' : the physical body and the first fruits of practice

'Then the inner secrets' : the subtle body (Suksma Sarira), the vital energy (Prana-Vayu) and actualizing power (Sakti)

To heal and/or to harm : the vital spots of the body and practice

When the 'body is all eyes' : attaining a state of transformative 'fury', 'doubtlessness' and 'mental power'

Repositioning the body, practice, power and self in the ethnographic present

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Cubao Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 613.7148 Z38w 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	126062d

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-298) and index.