Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance
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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 healing practices into a sign of Indian national culture, it was reimagined as a healing force not simply for bodily disorders but for colonial and postcolonial...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822329484
ISBN13:9780822329480
Release Date:October 2002
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
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