ISBN:
1845455509
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9781845455507
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 230 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asia Pacific studies v. 3
Parallel Title:
Print version The Body in Asia
DDC:
306.4095
Keywords:
Human body Social aspects
;
Human body Social aspects
Abstract:
The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the 'body in Asia' a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of schol
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page-The Body in Asia; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1-The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia; Part I-The Body and Religion; Chapter 2-Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives; Chapter 3-Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java; Chapter 4-Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, The Body, and The Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia; Part II-The Body and Culture; Chapter 5-Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's Magazines
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 6-Fatness and Well-Being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary ChinaPart III-The Body and the State; Chapter 7-Seki Juroji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen-State Relations in Meiji Japan; Chapter 8-The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colocial 'Medicalizaation' of the Filipino Body; Chapter 9-State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects; Chapter 10-Women's Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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