TY  - BOOK
AU  - Michaels, Axel, ed.
AU  - Wulf, Christoph, ed.
TI  - Images of the body in India
SN  - 9780415602303
U1  - 306.4613 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Human body in popular culture
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Human body--Religious aspects
KW  - Human body--Social aspects
KW  - Body image
N1  - Rethinking the body : an introduction / Axel Michaels and Christoph Wulf --
A Hindu to his body : the reinscription of traditional representations / Francis Zimmermann --
The skin and the self : a note on the limits of the body in Brahmanic India / Charles Malamoud --
God's body : epistemic and ritual conceptions from Sanskrit texts of logic / Gérard Colas --
Yogic rays : the self-externalization of the Yogi in ritual, narrative and philosophy / David Gordon White --
Body, breath and representation in Saiva tantrism / Gavin Flood --
Telling bodies / Fabrizia Baldissera --
The Indian body and Unani medicine : body history as entangled history / Margrit Pernau --
Open bodies / Arno Böhler --
Untouchable bodies of knowledge in the spirit possession of Malabar / Rich Freeman --
Performing God's body / William S. Sax --
Bodies filled with divine energy : the Indian dance odissi / Cornelia Schnepel --
Ritual competence as embodied knowledge / Ute Hüsken --
Human body, folk narratives and rituals / S. Simon John --
Translating the body into iage : the body politic and visual practice at the Mughal court during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Monica Juneja --
The multiple bodies of the bride : ritualising 'world class' at elite weddings in urban India / Christiane Brosius --
Lost in transition? Managing paradoxical situations by inventing identities / Iris Clemens
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