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| #1329972 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2002-10-02 | 2002-10-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.81 x5.88l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 328 pages | ||12 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Critical information: a 'must-read' for every ayurvedic educator, practitioner and student|By William Courson|Jean Langford, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, takes her readers on a fascinating journey into contemporary India, where ayurvedic medical practice has been shaped and re-invented by the forces of colonial and postcolonial proces||"This book breaks new ground in our understanding of not only Ayurveda as a practice of healing but also its transformation into a national symbol through which the humiliation of colonialism is sought to be overcome." -Bulletin of the History of Medicine
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 ills. You easily download any file type for your device.Fluent Bodies: Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance (Body, Commodity, Text) | Jean M. Langford. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
