
Gandhi's Body : Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism.
Title:
Gandhi's Body : Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism.
Author:
Alter, Joseph S.
ISBN:
9780812204742
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (226 pages)
Series:
Critical Histories
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.
Abstract:
"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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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