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Fluent Bodies : Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance /
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 heali...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Body, Commodity, Text : 21
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. (Re)inventing Ayurveda
- 2. Ayurvedic Interiors
- 3. Healing National Culture
- 4. The Effect of Externality
- 5. Clinical Gazes
- 6. Medical Simulations
- 7. Parodies of Selfhood
- Epilogue
- Interlocutors
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index