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The social construction of the body has been the focus of recent scholarship in a variety of disciplines. This paper investigates the way walking, that is, the moving body, is socially constructed within the different religious ideologies of ancient India. Beginning with the Vedic period, we find that walking takes on a religious significance in India culminating in the ascetic ideology of wandering...
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