Contextualizing the Body : An Indian Experience /
The new cultural history has rendered the historical epistemology of the human body a privileged site for scholarly intervention in social anthropology and other related disciplines. As a cultural metaphor, as manifestation of lived experience, as medium of existential encounter with the outer world...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill | Manohar Publishers & Distributors,
2021.
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Call Number: HM636
Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material /
- Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar
- Acknowledgementss /
- Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar
- Introduction /
- Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar
- Regulating the Feminine Body Glimpses from Manava Dharmashastra /
- Syed Tanveer Nasreen
- Female Body as the Site of the Mystical and the Erotic /
- Vijaya Ramaswamy
- Anatomy Knowledge at the 3rd Level Commodification of the Body Parts /
- Jayanta Bhattacharya
- Body Resistance and Atmospheric Threats /
- Ujjayan Bhattacharya
- Contextualizing the Body and the Nursing Profession in Colonial India /
- Aparajita Dhar
- The Image of Fallen Women in Nineteenth-century Bengali Literature /
- Amrita Biswas
- The 'Bawdy' Body /
- Sudit Krishna Kumar
- Living in the Shadow of Death /
- Arabinda Samanta
- 'The East and the West' /
- Bipasha Raha
- 'Bodies Politics' /
- Srilata Chatterjee
- Writing the History of the Relations between Technology, Medicine and the Body /
- Suvobrata Sarkar
- Muck on the Milky Way /
- Sudeshna Banerjee
- 'Make Me a Man' 1 /
- Amitava Chatterjee
- Imprisoned in the 'Other Body' /
- Rajashi Chakrabarty
- Contributors /
- Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar
- Index /
- Sudit Krishna Kumar and Suvobrata Sarkar.