Images of the Body in India : South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity (Paperback)

Rethinking the Body: An Introduction; The Body in Religious and Philosophical Texts; A Hindu to His Body: The Reinscription of Traditional Representations *; The Skin and the Self: A Note on the Limits of the Body in Brahmanic India; God's Body: Epistemic and Ritual Conceptions from Sanskrit Texts of Logic; Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and Philosophy; Body, Breath and Representation in ?aiva Tantrism 1; Telling Bodies; The Indian Body and Unani Medicine: Body History as Entangled History; Open Bodies; The Body in Narratives and Ritual Performances; Untouchable Bodies of Knowledge in the Spirit Possession of Malabar; Performing God's Body; Bodies Filled with Divine Energy: The Indian Dance Odissi; Ritual Competence as Embodied Knowledge; Human Body, Folk Narratives and Rituals; The Body in Visualisations and Images; Translating the Body into Image: The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The Multiple Bodies of the Bride: Ritualising ‘World Class' at Elite Weddings in Urban India; Lost in Transition? Managing Paradoxical Situations by Inventing Identities