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Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms
Editor(s): Frederick M. Smith, Dagmar Wujastyk
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Date: 2008
Pages: 366
Format: PDF
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0791474909
ISBN-13: 978-0791474907
Size: 1.15 MB

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Modern and Global Ayurveda provides an overview of the relatively recent history of Ayurveda in its modern and globalized forms. One of the traditional medical systems originating on the Indian subcontinent, Ayurveda is fast becoming a transnational phenomenon.

Contributors to this volume include both scholars and practitioners of Ayurveda. The wide range of perspectives they offer include the philosophical, anthropological, sociopolitical, economic, biomedical, and pharmacological. Issues such as the ideological clashes between "classical" and "modernized" Ayurveda, the "export" of Ayurvedic medical lore to Western countries, and the possible "reimport" of its adapted and reinterpreted contents are covered and prove particularly relevant to contemporary discussion on the integration of complementary and alternative health care.

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About the Author:

Frederick M. Smith teaches Sanskrit and Indian religion at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is The Self Possessed: Deity andSpirit Possession in South Asian Literature and Civilization (ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2006). His primary academic interest, into which thecurrent project falls, is to understand the history, development, and mechanics of South Asian cultural and religious traditions. He hasexamined these from a variety of synchronic and diachronic perspectives in his writings for the last twenty-five years.

Dagmar Wujastyk is an independent scholar pursuing her PhD in Indology at Bonn University, Germany. Frederick M. Smith is Professor of Sanskrit and Classical Indian Religions at the University of Iowa and the author of The Vedic Sacrifice in Transition: A Translation and Study of the Trikandamandana of Bhaskara Misra.

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