The Practice of Texts Education and Healing in South India /

The Practice of Texts Education and Healing in South India /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cerulli, Anthony author.
Edition:	1 ed.
Imprint:	[s.l.] : University of California Press, 2022.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Religion. Religion Religion. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13430892

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ISBN:	9780520383555 0520383559
Notes:	Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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.
Standard no.:	https:// doi.org/10.1525/luminos.120

Table of Contents:

Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Pronunciation
Introduction: Gurukulas and Tradition-Making in Modern Ayurveda
1 Situating Sanskrit (Texts) in Ayurvedic Education
2 Practicing Texts
3 Knowledge that Heals, Freely
4 From Healing Texts to Ritualized Practice
5 Texts in Practice and the Ayurvedic Patient
Notes
References
Index