When the body becomes all eyes : paradigms, discourses and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art / Phillip B. Zarrilli
Material type:
TextPublisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xxii, 310 pages : illustrationsContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0195655389
- 613.7148
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-298) and index.
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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