TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zarrilli,Phillip B.
TI  - When the body becomes all eyes: : paradigms, discourses and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art
SN  - 0195655389
U1  - 613.7148 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Delhi, India
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Martial arts
KW  - India
KW  - Kerala
KW  - Traditional medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -