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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.

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Médecine

Biological anthropology

Alternative medicine

India

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Publié par	Duke University Press
Date de parution	02 octobre 2002
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780822384113
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Acknowledgments

1. (Re)inventing Ayurveda

2. Ayurvedic Interiors

3. Healing National Culture

4. The E√ect of Externality

5. Clinical Gazes

6.MedicalSimulations

7. Parodies of Selfhood

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My greatest thanks go to my teachers. This project was ﬁrst conceived through conversations with my dissertation adviser, Lorna A. Rhodes, who thereafter insightfully commented on every stage of the work. Mari-lyn Ivy and Ann Anagnost guided me through many thorny theoretical problems. David Spain and Frank Conlon were both unfailing supports to me in the early years of this project. In addition, I owe thanks to many other teachers who have helped in the conceptualization of this project over the years, especially John Pemberton, T. N. Madan, David Lelyveld, and Stacy Leigh Pigg. Then there is my reading, writing, and hiking group: Sara Van Fleet, Sara Nelson, Rebecca Klenk, Peter Moran, and Ann Sheeran, who shared many moments of creativity, angst, and wildﬂowers. I am particularly grateful to Sara V. for pointing out the Wizard of Oz structure of chapter 6. I also thank my Hindi teachers, Michael Shapiro, Naseem Hines, and the late Alan Entwistle, as well as Dinkar Rai, Rakesh Nautiyal, Girish Joshi, and Urmila Raturi, none of whom, however, should be blamed for my language errors. Alan was especially patient in spending an entire quarter with me poring over Hindi texts on appropriate bowel move-ments and other such topics, not only without complaint, but even with interest. Charles Leslie was kind enough to loan me his copy of the Madras Report on indigenous medicine. Valuable critiques and comments on parts of this work were gener-ously given at various times by Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Purnima Man-kekar, Lawrence Cohen, Judith Farquhar, E. Valentine Daniel, Ken Wis-soker, and anonymous reviewers. To all of the practitioners who may recognize parts of themselves in these pages and to their families, I express my deepest gratitude for their time, patience, friendliness, and wisdom, not to mention their cold reme-