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Author(s): K. P. Girija
ISBN(s): 9780367273002, 0367273004
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Year: 2021
Language: English
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ISBN 10: 0367273004
ISBN 13: 9780367273002
Author: KP Girija

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust, literate classical tradition, separated from the assorted, vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous medicine and various compulsions which led to the codification and standardisation of Ayurveda in modern India. Critically engaging with authoritative scholarship, the book extrapolates from some of these theories, raising significant questions on the study of alternative knowledge practices. By using case studies of the southern Indian state of Kerala – which is known globally for its Ayurveda – it provides an in-depth analysis of local practices and histories. Drawing from interviews of practitioners, archival documents, vernacular texts and rare magazines on Ayurveda and indigenous medicine, it presents a nuanced understanding of the relationships between diverse practices. It highlights the interactions as well as the tensions within them, and the methods adopted to preserve the uniqueness of practices even while sharing elements of healing, herbs and medicine. It also discusses how regulations and standards set by the state have estranged assorted healing practices, created uncertainties and led to the formation of categories like Ayurveda and nattuvaidyam (indigenous medicine/ayurvedas). Lucid and topical, the book will be useful for researchers and people interested in social medicine, history of medicine, Ayurveda, cultural studies, history, indigenous studies, and social anthropology.
 

Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity 1st Edition Table of contents:

1: The intersecting triad: Kalari, Vishavaidyam and Ayurveda

Methodological musings

Can we think beyond taxonomy?

Practice, language and region: A conjoining of distinctiveness

Nattuvaidyam to Ayurveda

Archetypes and departures

Erudite and non-scholarly

North India as the model

Science sets the stage

Formalisation and normativisation

Critiquing and drawing from Orientalists

Constructing history

Ayurveda in Kerala

Notes

2: Conceptualising Ayurveda: Intersection of Print and Indigenous Medicine

Print and Vaidyam

Unremitting interactions

Classical versus popular: Esoteric versus exoteric

Appropriation and erasure

Aryavaidya Samajam: Aspiration for homogenisation

Notes

3: Construction of a classical tradition: Refashioning Ayurveda

History of Ayurveda

Rules and games

Revitalisation as part of Nationalism

Emerging prerequisites

The emergence of the Ayurveda

What constitutes Ayurveda?

Notes

4: Foregrounding a functional body: The body in Nattuvaidyam

The idea of the body

The body in kalari

The body in language

Action-Thought divide

Spontaneous vs thoughtful action

Methods of practising kalari

Systematicity

Transcending Specificity

Notion of classification

Regime of health and disease

Notes

5: Reinvention of education: Consecrating knowledge in twentieth-century Kerala

Section I

Learning vs education

Aspirations over education

Responses from within

Discourse on reading

Discourse on language

Vidya vs knowledge

Notion of freedom

Section II

Ambiguous boundaries

Section III

Ayurveda education

Nattuvaidyasala to Ayurveda department

New certificates, new social status

Transmutation of Ayurveda

Internal vs external assessment

Notes

Conclusion: Vidya to Vidyabhyasam: Ways of Knowing to Knowledge

Notes

Bibliography

A. Magazines, Journals, Newspapers (Malayalam)

B. Reports

C. Books, Journals, Articles

Index

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