Fluent Bodies

Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

Szerző: Jean M. Langford

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Com...

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Szerző

Jean M. Langford

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

328

EAN

9780822329480

ISBN

0822329484

Enbook ID

04937641

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

444

Méretek

228 x 151 x 19

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Fluent Bodies examines the modernization of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. Combining contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early-twentieth-century texts, Jean M. Langford argues that as Ayurveda evolved from an eclectic set of healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply for bodily disorders but for colonial and postcolonial ills. Interweaving theory with narrative, Langford explores the strategies of contemporary practitioners who reconfigure Ayurvedic knowledge through institutions and technologies such as hospitals, anatomy labs, clinical trials, and sonograms. She shows how practitioners appropriate, transform, or circumvent the knowledge practices implicit in these institutions and technologies, destabilizing such categories as medicine, culture, science, symptom, and self, even as they deploy them in clinical practice. Ultimately, this study points to the future of Ayurveda in a transnational era as a remedy not only for the wounds of colonialism but also for an imagined cultural emptiness at the heart of global modernity. Students and scholars of postcolonial theory, medical anthropology, South Asia, and science studies will be enriched by this book.

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