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_aZarrilli, Phillip B. _eauthor |
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_aWhen the body becomes all eyes _b: paradigms, discourses and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art _c/ Phillip B. Zarrilli |
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_aNew Delhi, India : _bOxford University Press, _c2000 |
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_axxii, 310 pages : _billustrations |
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_2rdacontent _atext |
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_2rdamedia _aunmediated |
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_2rdacarrier _avolume |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [273]-298) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : repositioning the body, practice, power and self | |
| 505 | 0 | _aHistory, kingship and the heroic : Kalarippayattu and the invention of a past | |
| 505 | 0 | _aThe ritual life of the Kalari and its deities : protecting and empowering the body-in-practice | |
| 505 | 0 | _a'First the outer forms' : the physical body and the first fruits of practice | |
| 505 | 0 | _a'Then the inner secrets' : the subtle body (Suksma Sarira), the vital energy (Prana-Vayu) and actualizing power (Sakti) | |
| 505 | 0 | _aTo heal and/or to harm : the vital spots of the body and practice | |
| 505 | 0 | _aWhen the 'body is all eyes' : attaining a state of transformative 'fury', 'doubtlessness' and 'mental power' | |
| 505 | 0 | _aRepositioning the body, practice, power and self in the ethnographic present | |
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_aMartial arts _zIndia _zKerala |
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_aTraditional medicine _zIndia _zKerala |
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_2ddc _cBOOK |
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| 690 | _aMedicine | ||