- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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The Body in Asia
About this book
The past few decades have seen growing interest in the study of the body. However, the increasing number of exciting and influential publications has primarily, if not exclusively, focused on the body in Western cultures. The various works produced by Asian scholars remain largely unknown to Western academic debates even though Asia is home to a host of rich body cultures and religions. The peoples of Asia have experienced colonization, decolonization, and now globalization, all of which make the 'body in Asia' a rewarding field of research. This unique volume brings together a number of scholars who work on East, Southeast and South Asia and presents original and cutting edge research on the body in various Asian cultures.
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Table of contents
- Title page-The Body in Asia
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1-The Global Body Cannot Ignore Asia
- Part I-The Body and Religion
- Chapter 2-Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
- Chapter 3-Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West Java
- Chapter 4-Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, The Body, and The Citizen-Subject in Contemporary Indonesia
- Part II-The Body and Culture
- Chapter 5-Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women's Magazines
- Chapter 6-Fatness and Well-Being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary China
- Part III-The Body and the State
- Chapter 7-Seki Juroji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen-State Relations in Meiji Japan
- Chapter 8-The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colocial 'Medicalizaation' of the Filipino Body
- Chapter 9-State and Religious Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human Subjects
- Chapter 10-Women's Revolution Embodied in Mao Zedong Era Ballet
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index