Zarrilli, Phillip B <br/><br/>
When the body becomes all eyes :   Paradigms, discourses and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art /  
Phillip B. Zarrilli. 
 - 1era. ed. 
 - Oxford University Press,   1998.  New Delhi :  
 - xxii, 310 p. ;   22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes preface p. vii.  Includes list of illustrations p. xiv.  Includes endnotes p. 254.  Includes glossary p. 299.  Includes index p. 308. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references p. 273. 
<br/><br/>1. Introduction: Repositioning the body, practice, power and self -- 2. History, kingship and the heroic: Kalarippayattu and the invention of a past -- 3. The ritual life of the Kalari and its deities: protecting and empowering the body-in-practice -- 4. "First the outer forms": the physical body and the first fruits of practice -- 5. "The the inner secrets": the subtle body (suksma sarira), the vital energy (prana-vayu) and actualizing power (sakti) -- 6. To heal and/or to harm: the vital spots of the body and practice -- 7. When the "body is all eyes": Attaining a state of transformative "fury", "doubtlessness" and "mental power" -- 8. Repositioning the body, practice, power and self in the ethnographic present. Apenddix 1: Texts in the Kalarippayattu tradition -- Apenddix 2: Interviews, personal correspondence-Kalarippayattu and varma ati masters. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0195639405 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Deportes de lucha--India<br/>Martial art<br/>Kalarippayattu
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.8  / Z38 1998