{"product_id":"4103-when-the-body-becomes-all-eyes-paradigms-discourses-and-practices-of-power-in-kalarippayattu","title":"When the Body Becomes All eyes - Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Phillip B zarrilli\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2008\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 310\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195655389\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the first in-depth study of Kalarippayattu, one of India's traditional martial arts, dating from at least the twelfth century AD.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this profusely-illustrated interdisciplinary performance ethnography traces how Kalaippayattu 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 al those interested in he martial arts, general readers, anthropologists and culture theory scholars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOMMENT:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are indeed grateful to the author for providing 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.                                                                                             - The Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Phillip B zarrilli \/ Oxford University Press \/ Paperback","offer_id":40776660943017,"sku":"4103","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/5523_665aefe9-3d71-4049-a5ed-765c2f84214c.jpg?v=1625529304","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/de\/products\/4103-when-the-body-becomes-all-eyes-paradigms-discourses-and-practices-of-power-in-kalarippayattu","provider":"India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}