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| Refiguring the Body: Embodiment in South Asian Religions | ||
| 作者 | Holdrege, Barbara A. (編) ; Pechilis, Karen (編) |
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| 卷期 | Special Issue |
| 出版日期 | 2016.12 |
| 頁次 | 376 |
| 出版者 | SUNY Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://sunypress.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Albany, NY, US [奧爾巴尼, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they recognize the limitations of applying Western theoretical models as the default epistemological framework for understanding notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays explores material bodies, embodied selves, and perfected forms of embodiment; divine bodies and devotional bodies; and gendered logics defining male and female bodies. The contributors seek to establish theory parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure body theories by taking seriously the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body. |
| 目次 | Introduction: Body Matters in South Asia Barbara A. Holdrege Part I. Material Bodies, Embodied Selves, and Perfected Embodiments 1. Perfected Embodiment: A Buddhist-Inspired Challenge to Contemporary Theories of the Body Michael Radich 17 2. Body, Self, and Embodiment in the Sanskrit Classics of Āyurveda Anthony Cerulli 59 3. Bodily Gestures and Embodied Awareness: Mudrā as the Bodily Seal of Being in the Trika Śaivism of Kashmir Kerry Martin Skora 89 4. Bodied, Embodied, and Reflective Selves: Theorizing Performative Selfhood in South Indian Performance Harshita Mruthinti Kamath 109 Part II. Divine Bodies and Devotional Bodies 5. Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahābhārata Kendall Busse 133 6. Bhakti and Embodiment: Bodies of Devotion and Bodies of Bliss in Kṛṣṇa Bhakti Barbara A. Holdrege 159 7. To Body or Not to Body: Repulsion, Wonder, and the Tamil Saint Kāraikkāl Ammaiyār Karen Pechilis 199 8. Bodies of Desire, Bodies of Lament: Marking Emotion in a South Indian Vaiṣṇava Messenger Poem Steven P. Hopkins 229 Part III. Gendered and Engendering Bodies 9. Defining Women’s Bodies in Indian Buddhist Monastic Literature Carol S. Anderson 255 10. Murderer, Saint, and Midwife: The Gendered Logic of Engendering in Buddhist Narratives of Aṅgulimāla’s Conversion Liz Wilson 285 11. Fruitful Austerity: Paradigms of Embodiment in Hindu Women’s Vrat Performances Tracy Pintchman 301 Afterword: Bodies of Knowledge Karen Pechilis 321 Contributors 331 Index 335 |
| ISBN | 9781438463155 (hbc) |
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| 點閱次數 | 66 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.06.04 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.06.04 |
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