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020 _a 978-0195655384
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100 _aPhillip B Zarrilli
245 _aWhen the body becomes all eyes : paradigms, discourses, and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art
250 _a1st.
260 _aDelhi
_bOxford University Press
_c 1998.
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500 _aThis is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu - one of India's traditional martial and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this study traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledges, powers, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned.
650 _a Martial arts -- India
650 _a Martial Arts
650 _aMartial arts.
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