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Images of the body in India/ edited by Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf

Contributor(s): Michaels, Axel, ed | Wulf, Christoph, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 2011Description: vi, 298 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 9780415602303Subject(s): Human body in popular culture | Rites and ceremonies | Human body--Religious aspects | Human body--Social aspects | Body imageDDC classification: 306.4613

Contents:

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	306.4613 MIC/P (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P10905

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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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