When the body becomes all eyes : paradigms, discourses, and practices of power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian martial art

This is the first in-depth study of kalarippayattu - one of India's traditional martial and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on twenty years of research and practice in Kerala, this study traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice through which bodies, knowledges, powers, agency, selves, and identities are constantly repositioned. This is a study of kalarippayattu, one of India's traditional martial and medical arts dating from at least the 12th century AD. Based on 20 years of research and practice in Kerala, it traces how kalarippayattu is a mode of cultural practice. An in-depth study of Kalarippayattu, martial art from Kerala, India.