TY - BOOK ID - 101480713 TI - The Practice of Texts : Education and Healing in South India PY - 2022 SN - 0520383559 0520383540 9780520383555 PB - Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medicine, Ayurvedic KW - Religion. KW - HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. KW - Study and teaching KW - History. KW - Religion, Primitive KW - Atheism KW - Irreligion KW - Religions KW - Theology KW - Ayurveda KW - Ayurvedic medicine KW - Ayurvedism KW - Hindu medicine KW - Medicine, Hindu KW - Medicine, Oriental UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101480713 AB - A 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. ER -