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Gandhi's body : sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism / Joseph S. Alter.
LIBRA DS480.45 .A782 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alter, Joseph S.
- Series:
- Critical histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet.
- Sexual ethics.
- India--Politics and government--20th century.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- Nationalism--India.
- Nationalism.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Gandhi.
- Sexual ethics--India.
- Medicine, Ayurvedic.
- Diet--India.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 207 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2000]
- 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"
- Contents:
- Preface: History, Body, Culture ix
- Part I. Rethinking the Mahatma
- Chapter 1. Gandhi's Body, Gandhi's Truth 3
- Chapter 2. The Ethereal Politics of the Mahatma's Fasts 28
- Part II. Nationalism, Transnationalism, and the Embodied Self
- Chapter 3. Nature Cure and Yoga: Transnational Experiments with Ether and Hydrotherapy 55
- Chapter 4. Surya Namaskar
- Salute to Village Democracy 83
- Chapter 5. Somatic Nationalism: Gama the Great, Another Heroic Indian 113
- Conclusion: Post-Gandhian Somatics: Auto-Urine Therapy 146.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812235568
- OCLC:
- 43569561
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