Fluent Bodies
Subtitle: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance (Body, Commodity, Text)
Series: Body, Commodity, Text
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780822329480
Subjects: Ayurvedic therapies; Ethnography; Social aspects; India; Archaeology / Anthropology; Medical; Traditional medicine; Anthropology - Cultural; Asia - India; World - Colonial Studies; Anthropology/Ethnography; Postcolonial Studies; South Asian Studies; Medicine, Ayurvedic
Description: 'Fluent bodies' examines the modernisation of the indigenous healing practice, Ayurveda, in India. It combines contemporary ethnography with a study of key historical moments as glimpsed through early 20th century texts.