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KALARIPPAYATTU RESOURCES

The major book-length study of kalarippayattu is Phillip B. Zarrilli's "When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Practices, and Discourses of Power in Kalarippayattu (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998). This volume is a performance ethnography of traditional and current martial practice, notions of the body and bodymind relationship which inform practice, etc. It is not a practical manual of techniques, but does include extensive descriptions and photographs of training in Kerala. The volume includes an appendix listing over thirty kalari in Kerala.

The following bibliography from the book provides a host of resources on or about kalarippayattu, Kerala culture and history, anthropological and ethnographic approaches to the study of practices like martial arts, and Indian martial arts in general.

Bibliography

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P R S T V W Y Z Manuscripts

Achutanandan, K.V.

Aiya, Nagam Ajay Alper, Harvey P., ed. Alter, Joseph S. Anderson, Benedict Appadurai, Arjun Appadurai, Arjun and Breckenridge,Carol A. Arvind, V. Ayrookuzhiel, A.M. Abraham Ayyar, K.V. Krishna Ayyar, Rah Bahadur L.K. Anantakrishna Babu, Bananje, and Mohan Kotian top Balakrishnan, P. Balaratnam, L.K. Barba, Eugenio and Nicola Savarese Barbosa, Duarte Bauman, Richard Beck, Brenda Bhaasi, Tooppil Bhabha, Homi K., ed. Bharata Bharucha, Rustom Bhishagratna, K.K., ed. and trans. Blacking, John, ed. Blundell, Valda, John Shepherd and Ian Taylor, eds. Breckenridge, Carol A., ed Briggs, G.W. Bruckner, Heidrun, Lothar Lutze, and Aditya Malik, eds. Bruner, Edward M. Burrow, T. and M.B. Emeneau Burrow, T. Butler, Judith Caldwell, Sarah Lee top Carrithers, M., S. Collins and S. Lukes Carter, Anthony T. Chakravarty, P.C. Charaka Clifford, James, ed. Cohen, Anthony P. Comaroff, John and Jean Connerton, Paul Courtright, Paul Cromwell, L.G. Daniel, E.V. top Danielou, Alain Dann, Jeffrey Lewis David, Kenneth, ed. Davis, M. Dasgupta, Gautam, trans. de Certeau, Michel Deraniyagala, P.E.P. DeSilva, M.S.C. Devi, E.H. Draeger, Donn Draeger, Donn F., and Robert W. Smith Drewal, Margaret Dutt Shastri, M.N., trans. Eck, Diana L. top Eliade, Mircea Elias, Norbert Emeneau, Murray B. Fawcett, E. top Feher, Michel, ed. Ferguson, Donald, ed. Fernandes, Eddie Filliozat, J. Fiske, John Foster, Susan Leigh, ed. Foster, William, ed. Fox, Richard G., ed. Foucault, Michel Freeman. J. Richardson Fuller, C.J. Ganapathy, T.N. top Gangadharan, N., trans. Gellner, Ernest Gitomer, David Giyani, S.D. Gladstone, J.W. Gode, P.K. Gough, Kathleen Gough, Kathleen and D.M. Schneider, eds. Grey, Edward, ed. Gundert, Rev. H. Gupta S., D.J. Hoens, and T. Goudriaan Hardy, F. top Hart, George L. Hastrup, Kirsten Hobsbawm, E.J. Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. Hopkins, Thomas J. Huang, Pierre, and Ming Wong Inden, Ronald top Innes, C.A. Irschick, Eugene F. Iyer, K. Bharata Iyer, L.A. Krishna Iyer, L.K.A. Krishna Iyer, T.G. Ramamurthi Jackson, Gary Brian top Jackson, Michael Jaggi, O.P. Jeffrey, R. Jenks, Chris, ed. Jenkins, Richard Johnson, Don Hanlon Johnson, Mark Johnson, Richard Jones, Betty True Jones, Betty True and Clifford R. Kailasapathy, K. top Kakar, S. Kapferer, Bruce Kareem, C.K. Kasulis, Thomas P., ed. with Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake Katiyar, Arun Kaviraj Sudipta Keat, Russell Kersenboom, Saskia C. Kersenboom-Story, S.C. Kesaven, Veluthat Keshwani, N.H., ed. Kiyota, Minoru Kiyota, M. and H. Kinoshita Kleinman, Arthur Kondo, Dorrine K. Kramrisch, S. Krishnadas, K.P. Kunhappa, Murkot. Kunju, A.P. Ibrahim Kuppuswamy, B. Kurup, K.K.N. Kutumbiah, P. Lach, Donald F. top Laderman, Carol Lakoff, George and Mark Johnson Lakoff, George Lambert, Helen Leder, Drew Leslie, Charles, ed. Lewis, J. Lowell Lindenbaum Shirley and Margaret Lock, eds. Lock, M. and N. Scheper-Hughes Logan, William Lorenzen, D. Majumdar, Bimal Kanti top Maliszewski, Michael Mammen, M.P. Manavendranath, K.C. Marriott, McKim Mathew, K.S. Mauss, M. Mayer, Adrian C. Mencher, Joan P. Mencher, Joan P. and H. Goldberg Mencher, Joan P. and K. Raman Unni Menon, A. Sreedhara Menon Menon, C.A. Menon, Mantavapalli Ittirariccha Menon, K.P.K. Menon, K.P.P. Meyrowitz, Joshua Miller, Eric J. Mines, Mattison Monier-Williams, M. Moore, Melinda A. Mooss, Vayaskara N.S. Mujumdar, D.C., ed. Mundadan, A. Mathias Nagatomo, Shigenori top Nambudiripad, K.V. Narayanan, M.G.S. Nair, C.V. Narayanan Nayar, Cirakkal T. Sreedharan Nayar, C.V. Narayanan Nayar, K. Narayanan Neff, Deborah Nichter, Mark Nongmaithem, Khilton Nossiter, T.J. Nossiter. Novack, Cynthia J. Pallath, Jaya Rani top Pandian V. Panikkar, K.M. Pant, G.N. Parry, Jonathan Pavis, Patrice Pillai, A.K.B. Pillai, Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, M.E. Manickavasagom Pillai, Sooranad P.N. Kunjan Pillai, S.T.K. Podipara, Placid J. Preston... Puthenkalam, J. Radhakrishnan, R. and Sridharan Chempad. top Raghavan, M.D. Raj, J. David Manuel Raja, P.K.S. Rao, P.V. Krishna Raphy, Sabeena Reid, H. and M. Croucher Reiker, Hans.-Ulrich, ed. and trans. Richards, J.F., ed. Roach, Joseph Ros, Frank Rosu, Arion Rosu, Arion and Jobard, Myriam Roy, Mira Roy, Ramashray Said, Edward top Salim, Saslin Saram, L. Karthikeya Sastri, K.A. Nilakanta Scarry, Elaine Schechner, Richard Schrag, Calvin O. Shah, Umakant P. Shaner, David Edward Shastri, Manmatha Nath Dutt. Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine, ed. Shweder, Richard A. and Robert A. LeVine Singer, Milton Singh, L.M., K.K. Thakral, and P.J. Deshpande Singh, Sarva Daman Singhal, G.D. and L.V. Guru Staal, Fritz Stoller, Paul Stoller Miller, Barbara Subramanian, N. Susruta Synnott, Anthony Thampuran, Rama Varma Appan top Thulaseedharan, K. Thurston, E.T. Tilak, Moses T.K.A.M. Trawick Egnor, Margaret Turner, Bryan S. Turner, Graeme Turner, Victor Turner, Victor W. and Edward M. Bruner, eds. Vagbhata top Varenne, Jean Varma, L.A. Ravi Vasu, Rai Bahadur Srisa Chandran, ed. and trans. Vasugurukkal Velayudhan, C.K. Veluthat, Kesavan Vijayakumaran Vogel, C. Wadley, Susan S. top Wadley, Susan S., ed. Warrier, M.R. Balakrishna White, Geoffrey, and John Kirkpatrick, eds. Wood, Ananda Yuasa, Yasuo top Zarrilli, Phillip B. top Zaynu'd-Din, Shaykh Zimmermann, Francis Zvelebil, Kamil

Manuscripts

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[The following manuscripts consulted are in Malayalam except as noted for Tamil. Unpublished works are from private collections.]

Grandhavari. Trivandrum: Government Press, 1973.

Granthavarimarmma cikitsa

Kalari Vaidya. Trivandrum: University of Kerala Malayalam Manuscript Series, 90, 1955.

Kulamarmmangal.

Marmmani cikitsa.

Marmmanidanam.

Marmmarahasyangal.

Nadar, M. Kunnakrishnan.

Nadar, K. Koccukrishnan. Marmmayogam. Varma Alavu Nool Pramanam (Tamil).

Varma Cuttiram (Tamil).

Selvaraj, S. John.

Varma Oti Murivu Cara Cuttiram (Tamil).


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