TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alter,Joseph S.
TI  - Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism
T2  - Critical Histories Series
SN  - 9780812204742
AV  - DS480.45 -- .A782 2000eb 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Gandhi,-Mahatma,-1869-1948
KW  - Diet-India
KW  - Medicine, Ayurvedic
KW  - Nationalism-India
KW  - Sexual ethics-India
KW  - India-Politics and government-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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