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200 00$aImages of the body in India /$feditors, Axel Michaels, Christoph Wulf
210  1$aNew Delhi [India] :$cRoutledge,$d2011.
215   $a1 online resource (300 p.)
300   $aContributed articles.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aFront 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; Ge?rard 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 Philosophy
327   $aGavin 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 Bo?hler: 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 Hu?sken: Ritual Competence as Embodied Knowledge; S. Simon John: Human Body, Folk Narratives and Rituals
327   $aThe 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 Contributors
330   $aThis 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 t
606   $aHuman body$xReligious aspects
606   $aRites and ceremonies$zIndia
606   $aRitual
606   $aHuman body in popular culture
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aHuman body$xReligious aspects.
615  0$aRites and ceremonies
615  0$aRitual.
615  0$aHuman body in popular culture.
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