[Read download] When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art
·•●- Phillip B. Zarrilli ·•●-
| #1254104 in Books | 2000-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.30 x.90 x8.40l,.95 | File Name: 0195655389 | 332 pages
||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating Look at an Indian Martial Art|By K. Frankel|This book, by a western academic who spent extensive periods of time studying Kalarippayattu in India, provides an interesting, detailed ethnographic survey of this little known martial art. Kalari is a complete art in the sense that it includes conditioning exercises, empty hand forms, a variety of weapons (staff, spea|About the Author|Phillip Zarrilli is at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu - one of India's traditional martial and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this study traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledges, powers, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned.
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