Examines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions. Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models o

Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particu

"Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin

The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theor

This collection maps the very best efforts to think the body at its limits. Because the body encompasses communities (social and political bodies), territories