Fluent Bodies

Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance

Autor: Jean M. Langford

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: 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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Autor

Jean M. Langford

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2002

strony

328

EAN

9780822329480

ISBN

0822329484

Enbook ID

04937641

Wydawca

Duke University Press

Waga

444

Wymiary

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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