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Online-Ressource (247 p)
ISBN:
9780230284555
Series Statement:
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
Content:
〈p 〉This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of 'ancient' medical knowledge into a 'modern' medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in late colonial India
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Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Ayurveda in Motion; 1 Historicizing Ayurveda: Genealogies of the Biomoral; 2 Situating Ayurveda in Modernity, 1900-1919; 3 Embodying Consumption: Representing Indigeneity in Popular Culture, 1910-1940; 4 Ayurveda's Dyarchic Moment, 1920-1935; 5 Planning Through Development: Institutions, Population and the Limits of Belonging; 6 Reframing Indigeneity: Ayurveda, Independence and the Health of the Future; Conclusion: Ayurveda's Indian Modernities; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
9781137315908
Additional Edition:
9780230284555
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ayurveda Made Modern : Political Histories of Indigenous Medicine in North India, 1900-1955
Language:
English
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