Images of the body in India/
edited by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf
- London: Routledge, 2011.
- vi, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Rethinking the body : an introduction / Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf -- A Hindu to his body : the reinscription of traditional representations / Francis Zimmermann -- The skin and the self : a note on the limits of the body in Brahmanic India / Charles Malamoud -- God's body : epistemic and ritual conceptions from Sanskrit texts of logic / Gérard Colas -- Yogic rays : the self-externalization of the Yogi in ritual, narrative and philosophy / David Gordon White -- Body, breath and representation in Saiva tantrism / Gavin Flood -- Telling bodies / Fabrizia Baldissera -- The Indian body and Unani medicine : body history as entangled history / Margrit Pernau -- Open bodies / Arno Böhler -- Untouchable bodies of knowledge in the spirit possession of Malabar / Rich Freeman -- Performing God's body / William S. Sax -- Bodies filled with divine energy : the Indian dance odissi / Cornelia Schnepel -- Ritual competence as embodied knowledge / Ute Hüsken -- Human body, folk narratives and rituals / S. Simon John -- Translating the body into iage : the body politic and visual practice at the Mughal court during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Monica Juneja -- The multiple bodies of the bride : ritualising 'world class' at elite weddings in urban India / Christiane Brosius -- Lost in transition? Managing paradoxical situations by inventing identities / Iris Clemens.
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Human body in popular culture Rites and ceremonies Human body--Religious aspects Human body--Social aspects Body image