The practice of texts : education and healing in south India /
"The Practice of Texts examines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions--the college and the gurukula--of India's classical life science, Ayurveda. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes late- and post-colonial reforms in ayurvedic educati...
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Gurukulas and tradition-making in modern Ayurveda
- Situating Sanskrit (texts) in ayurvedic education
- Practicing texts
- Knowledge that heals, freely
- From healing texts to ritualized practice
- Texts in practice : wellbeing, healing, and the ayurvedic patient.