When the body becomes all eyes : Paradigms, discourses and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art / Phillip B. Zarrilli.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1998.Edition: 1era. edDescription: xxii, 310 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0195639405
- 21 796.8 Z38 1998
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Libro de Reserva | Biblioteca William Corredor Gómez. Sede Cosmos (Barranquilla) | Reserva | 796.8 Z38 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Ej. 1 | Available | Colección 3, Isla 12, Lado A, Módulo 3 | 100002635 |
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.
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