Fluent bodies

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.

שנה

2002

שפה

English

סדרה

Body, Commodity, Text

הוצאה

Duke University Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

311

ISBN

9780822329480

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata