Images Du Corps Dans Le Monde Hindou
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Images Du Corps Dans Le Monde Hindou
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Author : Véronique Bouillier
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Images Du Corps Dans Le Monde Hindou written by Véronique Bouillier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Body image categories.
Aborde la connaissance et la compréhension des conceptions et des usages du corps dans la culture hindoue, depuis les origines védiques jusqu'à nos jours. Souligne les différences avec le modèle occidental du corps et la complexité des divers types de représentations qui coexistent dans la culture indienne (védique, tantrique et yogique).
Images Du Corps Dans Le Monde Hindou
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Author : Michel Angot
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Images Du Corps Dans Le Monde Hindou written by Michel Angot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Body image categories.
Comment se représente-t-on le corps dans le monde hindou ? Comment y est-il pensé et décrit ? Alors même que des recherches anthropologiques sur la société indienne l'ont placé au fondement des rapports sociaux entre castes, ou à la base des conceptions sur l'impureté, le corps n'avait jusqu'ici guère été étudié en lui-même. Aussi ce livre s'attache-t-il à restituer la multiplicité et la complexité de ses représentations, depuis la période védique ancienne jusqu'à nos jours, à travers l'iconographie, les images verbales, les pratiques corporelles d'exception ou les interactions quotidiennes. Quatre principaux domaines sont abordés. Après des approches historiques et épistémologiques mettant à jour diverses logiques de description et d'utilisation référentielle du corps, celui-ci est envisagé dans sa dimension ésotérique comme microcosme, support et objet d'ensembles complexes de représentations et de pratiques, en particulier du yoga et des tantras. Puis, divers aspects de son élaboration visuelle, gestuelle et perceptive sont examinés, dans le cadre de rituels de dévotion, de chants de mariage, de macérations ascétiques ou du cinéma populaire hindi. Enfin, une dernière partie analyse en quoi le corps est un lieu d'inscription de rapports sociaux variés. Des constantes émergent, qui montrent que si toutes ces représentations coexistent et se juxtaposent, elles n'en sont pas moins hiérarchisées, comme le sont les corps eux-mêmes. L'ensemble des contributions réunies ne se limite pas aux spéculations savantes. Il s'appuie tout autant sur les traditions orales, sur les règles légales, sur l'observation contemporaine des pratiques effectives - bref, sur la diversité des faits et des paroles qui manifestent, en Inde, les multiples réalités des corps.
Comparative Law In A Global Context
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Author : Werner F. Menski
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-30
Comparative Law In A Global Context written by Werner F. Menski and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-30 with Law categories.
Now in its second edition, this textbook presents a critical rethinking of the study of comparative law and legal theory in a globalising world, and proposes an alternative model. It highlights the inadequacies of current Western theoretical approaches in comparative law, international law, legal theory and jurisprudence, especially for studying Asian and African laws, arguing that they are too parochial and eurocentric to meet global challenges. Menski argues for combining modern natural law theories with positivist and socio-legal traditions, building an interactive, triangular concept of legal pluralism. Advocated as the fourth major approach to legal theory, this model is applied in analysing the historical and conceptual development of Hindu law, Muslim law, African laws and Chinese law.
Images Of The Body In India
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Author : Axel Michaels
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Images Of The Body In India written by Axel Michaels and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with Philosophy categories.
This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put forward a single concept of the body within Indian culture would be misleading. Divided into three parts, the book examines the considerable and often conflicting variations in body images and body concepts. In Part One the contributors focus on the representation of the body in religious and philosophical texts; representations that emerged from reading, translating and interpreting classical writings from diverse historical and anthropological approaches. Through predominantly ethnographic studies, Part Two explores the role of the body in narratives and ritual performance, from dance to ritualistic ceremonies. Visualisation processes of the body are examined in Part Three, focusing on developments in modern and contemporary periods: from visual practices at the Mughal court, to the multiple bodies of the bride, and the influence of new media. This volume is a fascinating collection of articles for those in the fields of sociology and anthropology, history, religion, cultural studies and South Asian studies.
Listen To The Heron S Words
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Author : Gloria Goodwin Raheja
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1994-04-29
Listen To The Heron S Words written by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-04-29 with History categories.
In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words—and women's expressive genres more generally—criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India. The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women.
Yoga In The Modern World
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Author : Mark Singleton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Yoga In The Modern World written by Mark Singleton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Health & Fitness categories.
This book is the first study to engage directly with the transformations and adaptations of yoga in the modern world. It addresses the dialectic and ideological exchange between yoga's ancient precursors and modern praxis, and the development and consolidation of yoga in global settings.
Refiguring The Body
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Author : Barbara A. Holdrege
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2016-12-28
Refiguring The Body written by Barbara A. Holdrege and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-28 with Religion categories.
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.
Sinister Yogis
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Author : David Gordon White
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-07-15
Sinister Yogis written by David Gordon White and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-15 with Religion categories.
Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga’s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga’s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia’s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their dangerous supernatural abilities—which can include raising the dead, possession, and levitation—to acquire power, wealth, and sexual gratification. As White shows, even those yogis who aren’t downright villainous bear little resemblance to Western assumptions about them. At turns rollicking and sophisticated, Sinister Yogis tears down the image of yogis as detached, contemplative teachers, finally placing them in their proper context.
Exploring The Senses
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Author : Axel Michaels
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Exploring The Senses written by Axel Michaels and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Social Science categories.
This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences. In drawing upon comparative perspectives from Indian and Western theories, the essays demonstrate the integral relation of senses with each other as well as with allied notions of the body, emotion and cultural memory. Stressing the continued relevance of senses as they manifest in a globalized world under the influence of new media, this work will interest scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, ritual studies, psychology, religion, philosophy, and history.
Roots Of Yoga
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Author : James Mallinson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Roots Of Yoga written by James Mallinson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with Health & Fitness categories.
'An indispensable companion for all interested in yoga, both scholars and practitioners' Professor Alexis G. J. S. Sanderson Despite yoga's huge global popularity, relatively little of its roots is known among practitioners. This compendium includes a wide range of texts from different schools of yoga, languages and eras: among others, key passages from the early Upanisads and the Mahabharata, and from the Tantric, Buddhist and Jaina traditions, with many pieces in scholarly translation for the first time. Covering yoga's varying definitions, its most important practices, such as posture, breath control, sensory withdrawal and meditation, as well as models of the esoteric and physical bodies, Roots of Yoga is a unique and essential source of knowledge. Translated and Edited with an Introduction by James Mallinson and Mark Singleton