Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets
Roman Sieler • 2015 • Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Author
- Roman Sieler
- First published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Genres
- Art · Science
- ISBN
- 9780190243852
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Published in 2015 by Oxford University Press, Lethal Spots, Vital Secrets serves as an anthropological examination of the practice of Kalaripayattu in South India. Roman Sieler conducted extensive fieldwork within the state of Kerala to document the historical and cultural significance of this traditional martial art. The work is situated within the broader academic discourse of embodiment, ritual theory, and the medical humanities, specifically focusing on how practitioners perceive the human body through the lens of indigenous therapeutic knowledge.
The book is noted for its rigorous ethnographic approach, blending historical analysis with contemporary observations of practitioners. Sieler explores the tension between the martial and healing aspects of the tradition, examining how specific bodily loci—the 'lethal spots' or marmam—are understood by masters and students alike. Upon its release, the text was received by the scholarly community as a significant contribution to the study of South Asian body practices, praised for its dense descriptive narrative and its effort to contextualize martial arts training within the social fabric of Malayali life.
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