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020			_a9780195639407
028			_a: Donated by Prof. Ines. G. Zupanov & Jabin Thomas(IRGS)
082			_a796.8 ZAR
100			_aZarrilli, Phillip B.
245			_a When the body becomes all eyes _c/ Phillip B Zarrilli.
260			_aDelhi _b: OUP _c , 1998.
300			_axxii, 310p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b00
520			_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.'
650			_aMartial arts
650			_aCultural Practice
650			_aAnthropologists
700			_aZarrilli Phillip B
942			_cBOOK
999			_c62399 _d62399