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Gandhi's Body : Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Histories SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (226 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204742
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gandhi's BodyLOC classification:
  • DS480.45 -- .A782 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: History, Body, Culture -- PART I. RETHINKING THE MAHATMA -- Chapter 1. Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth -- Chapter 2. The Ethereal Politics of the Mahatma's Fasts -- PART II. NATIONALISM, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND THE EMBODIED SELF -- Chapter 3. Nature Cure and Yoga: Transnational Experiments with Ether and Hydrotherapy -- Chapter 4. Surya Namaskar-Salute to Village Democracy -- Chapter 5. Somatic Nationalism: Gama the Great, Another Heroic Indian -- Conclusion: Post-Gandhian Somatics: Auto-Urine Therapy -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working. . . . It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: History, Body, Culture -- PART I. RETHINKING THE MAHATMA -- Chapter 1. Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth -- Chapter 2. The Ethereal Politics of the Mahatma's Fasts -- PART II. NATIONALISM, TRANSNATIONALISM, AND THE EMBODIED SELF -- Chapter 3. Nature Cure and Yoga: Transnational Experiments with Ether and Hydrotherapy -- Chapter 4. Surya Namaskar-Salute to Village Democracy -- Chapter 5. Somatic Nationalism: Gama the Great, Another Heroic Indian -- Conclusion: Post-Gandhian Somatics: Auto-Urine Therapy -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working. . . . It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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