Interpreting the image of the human body in pre-modern India
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Post-modernism, now fading partly into orthodoxy, partly into irrelevance, brought two new academic metaphors into common usage, especially in the fields of cultural studies and anthropology. The first is the metaphor of writing, given to us especially by Derrida. In this style, we talk of discourses, textualities, inscriptions, readings, and decipherments. All experience and explanation is modelled on the act of reading and textual reception. For example, bodies may be discussed as,
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