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  - 0195639405
U1  - 796.8 21
PY  - 0000///New Delhi :
CY  - Oxford University Press, 
PB  - 1998.
KW  - Deportes de lucha
KW  - India
KW  - Martial art
KW  - Kalarippayattu
N1  - Includes preface p. vii; Includes list of illustrations p. xiv; Includes endnotes p. 254; Includes glossary p. 299; Includes index p. 308; Includes bibliographical references p. 273; 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
ER  -