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Author Alter, Joseph S

Title Gandhi's body : sex, diet, and the politics of nationalism / Joseph S. Alter
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 207 pages)
Series Critical Histories
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
LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Acknowledgments
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
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812204742
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
SUBJECT Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 fast
Subject Diet -- India
Medicine, Ayurvedic.
Sexual ethics -- India
Nationalism -- India.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Diet
Medicine, Ayurvedic
Nationalism
Politics and government
Sexual ethics
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064942
Subject India
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812204742
0812204743