01503nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802800610007608200140013710000250015124500590017626000280023530000250026336500070028852009190029565000170121465000220123165000200125370000240127320240918142712.0240918b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780195639407  a: Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)  a796.8 ZAR  aZarrilli, Phillip B.  a When the body becomes all eyesc/ Phillip B Zarrilli.  aDelhi b: OUPc , 1998.  axxii, 310p.c: 24cm.  b00  aThis is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu, one of India's traditional martial arts, dating from at least the twelfth century ad. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this profusely-illustrated interdisciplinary performance ethnography traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledge, power, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned. The book will be a rewarding one for all those interested in the martial arts, general readers, anthropologists and culture theory scholars. From review We are indeed grateful to... the author for provid(ing)... a historical outline of the martial art, its ritual setting and the various dimensions of the physical disciplining besides the centrality about its notion of the attainment of psycho-physical perfection... filling the whole body with eyes. ...a delightfully informative volume.'   aMartial arts  aCultural Practice  aAnthropologists  aZarrilli Phillip B