The wrestler's body : identity and ideology in north India /

This book tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnogr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alter, Joseph S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1992.
Subjects:
Wrestling > Social aspects > India.
Lutte > Aspect social > Inde.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Wrestling.
Manners and customs.
Wrestling > Social aspects.
India > Social life and customs.
Inde > Mœurs et coutumes.
India.
Wrestling
India
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Search and Research
  • The Akhara: Where Earth Is Turned Into Gold
  • Gurus and Chelas: The Alchemy of Discipleship
  • The Patron and the Wrestler
  • The Discipline of the Wrestler's Body
  • Nag Panchami: Snakes, Sex, and Semen
  • Wrestling Tournaments and the Body's Recreation
  • Hanuman: Shakti, Bhakti, and Brahmacharya
  • The Sannyasi and the Wrestler
  • Utopian Somatics and Nationalist Discourse
  • The Individual Re-Formed.

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