{"product_id":"the-practice-of-texts-anthony-cerulli-9780520383548","title":"The Practice of Texts: Education and Healing in South India","description":"\u003cp\u003eA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Practice of Texts \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the uses of the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of India's classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the \u003ci\u003egurukula\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 \u003ci\u003egurukula\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003egurukula\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthony Cerulli\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520383540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520383548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Anthony Cerulli","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43945307668735,"sku":"9780520383548","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_87d9e154-e98d-4216-8873-64143c243c27.jpg?v=1681507939","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-practice-of-texts-anthony-cerulli-9780520383548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}