Images of the Body in India (eBook, ePUB)

South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
Redaktion: Michaels, Axel; Wulf, Christoph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This 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 show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136703928
• Artikelnr.: 38275200

Autorenporträt

Axel Michaels is Professor of Classical Indology at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Philosophy of Education, Freie Universität Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

Rethinking the Body: An Introduction
The Body in Religious and Philosophical Texts
A Hindu to His Body: The Reinscription of Traditional Representations *
The Skin and the Self: A Note on the Limits of the Body in Brahmanic India
God's Body: Epistemic and Ritual Conceptions from Sanskrit Texts of Logic
Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and Philosophy
Body, Breath and Representation in ?aiva Tantrism 1
Telling Bodies
The Indian Body and Unani Medicine: Body History as Entangled History
Open Bodies
The Body in Narratives and Ritual Performances
Untouchable Bodies of Knowledge in the Spirit Possession of Malabar
Performing God's Body
Bodies Filled with Divine Energy: The Indian Dance Odissi
Ritual Competence as Embodied Knowledge
Human Body, Folk Narratives and Rituals
The Body in Visualisations and Images
Translating the Body into Image: The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
The Multiple Bodies of the Bride: Ritualising 'World Class' at Elite Weddings in Urban India
Lost in Transition? Managing Paradoxical Situations by Inventing Identities