Rethinking the Body: An Introduction

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Rethinking the Body: An Introduction
2. A Hindu to His Body: The Reinscription of Traditional Representations
3. The Skin and the Self: A Note on the Limits of the Body in Brahmanic India
4. God′s Body: Epistemic and Ritual Conceptions from Sanskrit Texts of Logic
5. Yogic Rays: The Self-Externalization of the Yogi in Ritual, Narrative and Philosophy
6. Body, Breath and Representation in Śaiva Tantrism
7. Telling Bodies
8. The Indian Body and Unani Medicine: Body History as Entangled History
9. Open Bodies
10. Untouchable Bodies of Knowledge in the Spirit Possession of Malabar
11. Performing God′s Body
12. Bodies Filled with Divine Energy: The Indian Dance Odissi
13. Ritual Competence as Embodied Knowledge
14. Human Body, Folk Narratives and Rituals
15. Translating the Body Into Image. The Body Politic and Visual Practice at the Mughal Court During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
16. The Multiple Bodies of the Bride: Ritualising 'World Class′ at Elite Weddings in Urban India
17. The Politics of the Sensuous and the Sacred Body in India
18. Lost in Transition? Managing paradoxical situations by inventing identities