ISBN:
9780415602303
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (300 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. (298 S.) 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Images of the body in India
DDC:
306.4613
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Hinduismus
;
Körper
;
Ritus
;
Indien
;
Literatur
;
Körper
;
Indien
;
Kunst
;
Körper
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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 Philosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
Gavin 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 Rituals
Description / Table of Contents:
The 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;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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