The Practice of Texts : Education and Healing in South India (Edition 1)

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...

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Main Author: Cerulli, Anthony (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: University of California Press 2022
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