About the Book:
This is the first in-depth study of Kalarippayattu, one of India's traditional martial arts, dating from at least the twelfth century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this profusely-illustrated interdisciplinary performance ethnography traces how kalarippayattu 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 all those interested in the martial arts, general readers, anthropologists and culture theory scholars.
About the Author:
Phillip B. Zarrilli is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter, U.K., where he teaches kalarippayattu, yoga, and t'ai chi ch'uan, as part of the B.A. and M.A. (Theatre Practice) degrees.
Excerpt from Review:
'We are indeed grateful to the author for provid(ing) 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
Preface
Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
| Chapter 1. |
Introduction: Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power and Self |
| Chapter 2. |
History, Kingship and the Heroic: Kalarippayattu and the Invention of a Past |
| Chapter 3. |
The Ritual Life of the Kalari and its Deities: Protecting and Empowering the Body-in-Practice |
| Chapter 4. |
'First the Outer Forms': The Physical Body and the First Fruits of Practice |
| Chapter 5. |
'Then the Inner Secrets': The Subtle Body (Suksma Sarira), The Vital Energy (Prana-Vayu) and Actualizing Power (Sakti) |
| Chapter 6. |
To Heal and/or To Harm: The Vital Spots of the Body and Practice |
| Chapter 7. |
When the 'Body is all Eyes': Attaining a State of Transformative 'Fury', 'Doubtlessness' and 'Mental Power' |
| Chapter 8. |
Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power and Self in the Ethnographic Present |
Appendix I: Texts in the Kalarippayattu Tradition
Appendix II: Interviews, Personal Correspondence - Kalarippayattu and Varma Ati Masters
Endnotes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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About the Book:
This is the first in-depth study of Kalarippayattu, one of India's traditional martial arts, dating from at least the twelfth century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this profusely-illustrated interdisciplinary performance ethnography traces how kalarippayattu 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 all those interested in the martial arts, general readers, anthropologists and culture theory scholars.
About the Author:
Phillip B. Zarrilli is Professor in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter, U.K., where he teaches kalarippayattu, yoga, and t'ai chi ch'uan, as part of the B.A. and M.A. (Theatre Practice) degrees.
Excerpt from Review:
'We are indeed grateful to the author for provid(ing) 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
Preface
Acknowledgements and Note on Transliteration
List of Illustrations
| Chapter 1. |
Introduction: Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power and Self |
| Chapter 2. |
History, Kingship and the Heroic: Kalarippayattu and the Invention of a Past |
| Chapter 3. |
The Ritual Life of the Kalari and its Deities: Protecting and Empowering the Body-in-Practice |
| Chapter 4. |
'First the Outer Forms': The Physical Body and the First Fruits of Practice |
| Chapter 5. |
'Then the Inner Secrets': The Subtle Body (Suksma Sarira), The Vital Energy (Prana-Vayu) and Actualizing Power (Sakti) |
| Chapter 6. |
To Heal and/or To Harm: The Vital Spots of the Body and Practice |
| Chapter 7. |
When the 'Body is all Eyes': Attaining a State of Transformative 'Fury', 'Doubtlessness' and 'Mental Power' |
| Chapter 8. |
Repositioning the Body, Practice, Power and Self in the Ethnographic Present |
Appendix I: Texts in the Kalarippayattu Tradition
Appendix II: Interviews, Personal Correspondence - Kalarippayattu and Varma Ati Masters
Endnotes
Bibliography
Glossary
Index
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