04046nam 2200685Ia 450 991082817740332120200520144314.01-136-70392-61-136-70393-40-203-81398-710.4324/9780203813980 (CKB)2670000000163938(EBL)692420(OCoLC)782859200(SSID)ssj0000622985(PQKBManifestationID)11389589(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622985(PQKBWorkID)10648701(PQKB)11017958(MiAaPQ)EBC692420(Au-PeEL)EBL692420(CaPaEBR)ebr10542307(CaONFJC)MIL761023(OCoLC)787849486(EXLCZ)99267000000016393820110120d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImages of the body in India /editors, Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf1st ed.New Delhi Routledge20111 online resource (300 p.)Contributed articles.0-415-60230-0 Includes bibliographical references.Front Cover; Images of the Body in India; Copyright Page; Contents; Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf: Rethinking the Body: An Introduction; The Body in Religious and Philosophical Texts; Francis Zimmermann: A Hindu to His Body: The Reinscription of Traditional Representations; Charles Malamoud: The Skin and the Self: A Note on the Limits of the Body in Brahmanic India; Gérard Colas: God's Body: Epistemic and Ritual Conceptions from Sanskrit Texts of Logic; David Gordon White: Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and PhilosophyGavin Flood: Body, Breath and Representation in Saiva TantrismFabrizia Baldissera: Telling Bodies; Margrit Pernau: The Indian Body and Unani Medicine: Body History as Entangled History; Arno Böhler: Open Bodies; The Body in Narratives and Ritual Peformances; Rich Freeman: Untouchable Bodies of Knowledge in the Spirit Possession of Malabar; William S. Sax: Performing God's Body; Cornelia Schnepel: Bodies Filled with Divine Energy: The Indian Dance Odissi; Ute Hüsken: Ritual Competence as Embodied Knowledge; S. Simon John: Human Body, Folk Narratives and RitualsThe Body in Visualisations and ImagesMonica Juneja: Translating the Body into Image: The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; Christiane Brosius: The Multiple Bodies of the Bride: Ritualising 'World Class' at Elite Weddings in Urban India; Iris Clemens: Lost in Transition? Managing Paradoxical Situations by Inventing Identities; About the Editors; Notes on ContributorsThis intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading.Divided into three parts, the book examines the considerable and often conflicting variations in body images and body concepts. In Part One the contributors focus on the representation of the body in religious and philosophical texts; representations tHuman bodyReligious aspectsRites and ceremoniesIndiaRitualHuman body in popular cultureHuman bodyReligious aspects.Rites and ceremoniesRitual.Human body in popular culture.306.46130954Michaels Axel668008Wulf Christoph1944-163342MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828177403321Images of the body in India4051054UNINA