03418nam 22005895 450 991058359670332120230629233819.09780520383555052038355910.1515/9780520383555(CKB)5670000000358079(DE-B1597)627804(DE-B1597)9780520383555(ScCtBLL)bc3f9ed5-d12c-4023-a920-fda5a133a330(OCoLC)1306633682(MiAaPQ)EBC31594316(Au-PeEL)EBL31594316(Perlego)4432587(oapen)doab78353(EXLCZ)99567000000035807920220629h20222022 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Practice of Texts Education and Healing in South India /Anthony Cerulli1 ed.University of California Press2022Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2022]©20221 online resource (240 p.)9780520383548 0520383540 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 -- IndexA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.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.Medicine, AyurvedicStudy and teachingIndiaKeralaMedicine, AyurvedicIndiaKeralaHistoryReligionHISTORY / Asia / India & South AsiabisacshMedicine, AyurvedicStudy and teachingMedicine, AyurvedicHistory.Religion.HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia.615.5/38095483Cerulli Anthony, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1251863DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910583596703321The Practice of Texts2901726UNINA