Mapping the History of Ayurveda: Culture, Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

ISBN-13: 9780367273002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

K. P. Girija

Opis

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous medicine and the various compulsions which led to the codification and standardisation of Ayurveda in modern India.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The intersecting Triad: Kalari, Vishavaidyam and Ayurveda 2. Print Media and Indigenous Medicine: Imprinting Ayurveda in Twentieth-century Kerala 3. Refiguring of Ayurveda as Classical Tradition 4. Foregrounding a Functional Body: The Body in Indigenous Medicine 5. Reinventing Education: Consecrating Knowledge in Twentieth Century Kerala Conclusion Vidya to Vidyabhyasam: Ways of Knowing to Knowledge Glossary

O autorze

K P Girija is an independent scholar based out of Kerala, India. She has a doctorate in cultural studies from the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society from Manipal University, Karnataka, India. She acquired a fellowship from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi to pursue her PhD. She was a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2017-19) and a grantee of the Kerala Council for Historical Research, Thiruvananthapuram (2019-20). Girija is interested in questions that explore the politics and history of knowledge formation, the liminal space of interaction among heterogenous knowledge practices and their philosophical and psychological foundations. Currently, she is working on a project that analyses the intersection between knowledge, caste and the subject through the life narratives of Ayurveda practitioners.