Lethal Spots Vital Secrets

Author : Roman Sieler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190243864
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets written by Roman Sieler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an ethnographic study of varmakkalai, or 'the art of the vital spots, ' a South Indian esoteric tradition that combines medical practice and martial arts

Author : Roman Sieler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190243872
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets written by Roman Sieler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets provides an ethnographic study of varmakkalai, or "the art of the vital spots," a South Indian esoteric tradition that combines medical practice and martial arts. Although siddha medicine is officially part of the Indian Government's medically pluralistic health-care system, very little of a reliable nature has been written about it. Drawing on a diverse array of materials, including Tamil manuscripts, interviews with practitioners, and his own personal experience as an apprentice, Sieler traces the practices of varmakkalai both in different religious traditions--such as Yoga and Ayurveda--and within various combat practices. His argument is based on in-depth ethnographic research in the southernmost region of India, where hereditary medico-martial practitioners learn their occupation from relatives or skilled gurus through an esoteric, spiritual education system. Rituals of secrecy and apprenticeship in varmakkalai are among the important focal points of Sieler's study. Practitioners protect their esoteric knowledge, but they also engage in a kind of "lure and withdrawal"---a performance of secrecy---because secrecy functions as what might be called "symbolic capital." Sieler argues that varmakkalai is, above all, a matter of texts in practice; knowledge transmission between teacher and student conveys tacit, non-verbal knowledge, and constitutes a "moral economy." It is not merely plain facts that are communicated, but also moral obligations, ethical conduct and tacit, bodily knowledge. Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets is an insightful analysis of practices rarely discussed in scholarly circles. It will be a valuable resource to students of religion, medical anthropologists, historians of medicine, Indologists, and martial arts and performance studies.

Author : D. F. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781952008245
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 652 pages
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Author : D. F. Hart
Publisher : Vital Secrets
ISBN 13 : 9781952008641
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : D. F. Hart
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ISBN 13 : 9781952008665
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Author : D. F. Hart
Publisher : Vital Secrets
ISBN 13 : 9781952008634
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Herman Joseph Heuser
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
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Author : Annette Baran
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9781567430202
Total Pages : 187 pages
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Download or read book LETHAL SECRETS PB written by Annette Baran and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-11-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Warner Books, April 1989 as an Amistad book under the title : Lethal secrets : the shocking consequences and unsolved problems of artificial insemination ; first issued as an Amistad Press, Inc. trade paperback with a new preface in March 1993.--T.p. verso.

Author : Howard Reid
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book The Fighting Arts written by Howard Reid and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the techniques and philosophy of Asian fighting systems, such as judo, karate, and kung fu, and describes the practices of masters of the martial arts.