Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India - Couverture souple

Cerulli, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520383540 ISBN 13 : 9780520383548

Editeur : University of California Press, 2022

Synopsis

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The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India's classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the college curriculum on ways that ayurvedic physicians understand and use the Sanskrit classics in their professional work today. His fieldwork in south India illuminates the nature of philology and ritual in the ayurvedic gurukula and showcases how knowledge is exchanged among students, teachers, and patients. The result, Cerulli shows, is that the Sanskrit classics are presented and applied differently in the college and gurukula, producing a variety of relationships with these texts among practitioners. By interrogating the politics surrounding the place of the Sanskrit classics in ayurvedic curricula, this book reveals a spectrum of views about the history and tradition of Ayurveda in modern India.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anthony Cerulli is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520383540
• ISBN 13: 9780520383548
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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