Martha Ann Selby
Biographic Data
| ID | 133446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Ann Selby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Selby |
| SIGNATURE | SELBY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the “Suśrutasaṃhitā”, written by Dominik Wujastyk et al
Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation of the Akananuru (Part 1—Kalirriyanainirai), vol. I: Introduction, Invocation–50; vol. II: 51–120; vol. III: Old Commentary on Kalirriyanainirai KV–90; Wo…
A Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation of the Akanānūru (Part 1—Kaḷiṟṟiyāṉainirai), vol. I: Introduction, Invocation–50; vol. II: 51–120; vol. III: Old Commentary on Kaḷiṟṟiyāṉainirai KV–90; Word Index of Akanānūru KV–120. By Eva Wilden. Collection Indologie, vol. 134.1–3. Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature, vol. 4.1–3. NETamil Series, vol. 1.1–3. Pondichéry: École Française d’Extrême-Orient and Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2018. Pp…
Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary. Edited by Eva Wilden
Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary. Edited by Eva Wilden. École Française d’Extrême-Orient Collection Indologie, vol. 109. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2009. Pp. xiv + 319
Passages: Relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare
Passages: Relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare. Institut Français de Pondichéry, Publications Hors Série, vol. 11. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry and Tamil Chair, Department of South and Southeast Asian studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2009. Pp. xxxvi + 380
Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda. By Dagmar Wujastyk
Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda. By Dagmar Wujastyk. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. vi + 238. $38.95
Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid
The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid. Pondichéry: École Française d'Extrême-Orient and Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2014. Pp. xiv + 366
Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid
The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid. Collection Indologie, no. 132. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry; Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2016. Pp. x + 609, illus
Tamil: A Biography. By David Shulman
Tamil: A Biography. By David Shulman. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 402
On Anatomical Enumeration and Difference in Early Sanskrit Medical Literature
What does it mean to inventory all the components of the human body, and what do those inventories tell us about medical ideas and practice? I compare the lists of body parts in the śārīra-sthānas (sections relating to the body) of the Caraka-saṃhitā (ca. first century CE ) and the Suśruta-saṃhitā (ca. second century CE ). Rather than provide a detailed list of differences, I contemplate what these differences “mean” in terms of counting as a pra…
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences
Projit Mukharji’s new book, Doctoring Traditions, is ‘about therapeutic change in Ayurvedic medicine’, but it is about so much more than that. For those of us who work on Ayurveda in its classical forms as well as in its modern iterations, much that we encounter is dissonance in practice and vocabulary. Mukharji writes of a very specific form of Ayurveda that is distinct and separate from the classical Ayurveda of the Sanskrit texts from the earl…
The Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil Landscapes of Irony and Voice
This article is a brief study of four female characters—a pair of daughters and a pair of mothers—who give voice to the majority of the poems in the Aiṅkuṟunūṟu, an Old Tamil anthology of love poetry from the early decades of the third century CE. Taking cues from recent ethnographies on friendship in South Asia and from Alan Bray’s compelling study of friendship in modern Britain, I will examine the ways in which bonds between female friends are…
Four Hundred Songs of Love: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil. The Akananuru. Translated and annotated by George L. Hart
The Four Hundred Songs of Love: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil. The Akanāṉūṟu. Translated and annotated by George L. Hart. Regards sur l’Asie du Sud/South Asian Perspectives, no. 7. Pondichéry: Institut FrançaIs de Pondichéry, 2015. Pp. xx + 485. Rs. 1000, €43
Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature, written by Anthony Cerulli
James McHugh. Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture
Journal Article James McHugh. Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. Get access James McHugh. Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xix, 322. $35.00. Martha Ann Selby Martha Ann Selby University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages …
Deep Rivers: Selected Writings on Tamil Literature. By Francois Gros. Translated by M. P. Boseman. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare
Deep Rivers: Selected Writings on Tamil Literature. By François Gros. Translated by M. P. Boseman. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare. Institut Français de Pondichéry Publications Hors Série, vol. 10. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry and Tamil Chair, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2009. Pp. xxxviii + 519
Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage.…
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: Democratic Practice in South India by Bernard Bate
Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms (review)
Reviewed by: Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms Martha Ann Selby Dagmar Wujastyk and Frederick M. Smith, eds. Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. New York: State University of New York Press, 2008. xiii + 349 pp. Ill. $89.50 (cloth, 978-0-7914-7489-1), $29.95 (paperbound, 978-0-7914- 7490-7). Based on the papers presented at a 2004 public conference held at the Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research at the Un…
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
Tamil geographies: Cultural constructions of space and place in South India
"This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions of land and space and how these descriptions build and inform diverse social and aesthetic realities. The essays examine "texts" drawn from a range of time …
Narratives of Conception, Gestation, and Labour in Sanskrit Āyurvedic Texts
This essay looks at the ways in which medical discourse in Sanskrit is linguistically and meaningfully constructed, especially when this discourse directly addresses sexual difference in textual understandings of the ways in which conception, gestation, and the quotidian details of the birth experience are described by the multiple authors of these texts, and in some cases, by their commentators. I see it as my task to uncover and discuss the con…
A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India
Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India
This book presents new English translations of over 200 erotic poems composed in India's three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakrit, and Sanskrit. The poems have been culled from large anthologies that date from as early as the first century CE to as late as the eighth century. Martha Ann Selby's masterful translations allow the poems to stand on their own in English while maintaining the flavors of the original verses. Grouped acco…
Grow long, blessed night: Love poems from classical India / Martha Ann Selby.
Desire for Meaning: Providing Contexts for Prākrit Gāthās
In general, readers, commentators, translators, and reviewers are bound to see shadows of themselves or of their own concerns in a poem. A poem is, in fact, a "patch" between desire and reality. Like a dream, a poem can be viewed as "reality encoded" (Skura 1981, 126). The issue is not what is actually on the page, what critic Harold Bloom calls the "manifest text" (Bloom 1987, 3). The poem is really what exists in that misty place between "writi…
The Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil Landscapes of Irony and Voice
This article is a brief study of four female characters—a pair of daughters and a pair of mothers—who give voice to the majority of the poems in the Aiṅkuṟunūṟu, an Old Tamil anthology of love poetry from the early decades of the third century CE. Taking cues from recent ethnographies on friendship in South Asia and from Alan Bray’s compelling study of friendship in modern Britain, I will examine the ways in which bonds between female friends are…
Desire for Meaning: Providing Contexts for Prākrit Gāthās
In general, readers, commentators, translators, and reviewers are bound to see shadows of themselves or of their own concerns in a poem. A poem is, in fact, a "patch" between desire and reality. Like a dream, a poem can be viewed as "reality encoded" (Skura 1981, 126). The issue is not what is actually on the page, what critic Harold Bloom calls the "manifest text" (Bloom 1987, 3). The poem is really what exists in that misty place between "writi…
Grow long, blessed night: Love poems from classical India / Martha Ann Selby.
Grow Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India
This book presents new English translations of over 200 erotic poems composed in India's three classical languages: Old Tamil, Maharastri Prakrit, and Sanskrit. The poems have been culled from large anthologies that date from as early as the first century CE to as late as the eighth century. Martha Ann Selby's masterful translations allow the poems to stand on their own in English while maintaining the flavors of the original verses. Grouped acco…
A Poem at the Right Moment: Remembered Verses from Premodern South India
Narratives of Conception, Gestation, and Labour in Sanskrit Āyurvedic Texts
This essay looks at the ways in which medical discourse in Sanskrit is linguistically and meaningfully constructed, especially when this discourse directly addresses sexual difference in textual understandings of the ways in which conception, gestation, and the quotidian details of the birth experience are described by the multiple authors of these texts, and in some cases, by their commentators. I see it as my task to uncover and discuss the con…
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
Tamil geographies: Cultural constructions of space and place in South India
"This interdisciplinary work explores how people in the Tamil region of India think about space and land, and how this, in turn, influences the creation of the social and aesthetic world they live in. Contributors focus on the notion of geography in its strictest sense, on verbal descriptions of land and space and how these descriptions build and inform diverse social and aesthetic realities. The essays examine "texts" drawn from a range of time …
Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms (review)
Reviewed by: Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms Martha Ann Selby Dagmar Wujastyk and Frederick M. Smith, eds. Modern and Global Ayurveda: Pluralism and Paradigms. New York: State University of New York Press, 2008. xiii + 349 pp. Ill. $89.50 (cloth, 978-0-7914-7489-1), $29.95 (paperbound, 978-0-7914- 7490-7). Based on the papers presented at a 2004 public conference held at the Dharam Hinduja Institute of Indic Research at the Un…
Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage.…
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic: Democratic Practice in South India by Bernard Bate
Deep Rivers: Selected Writings on Tamil Literature. By Francois Gros. Translated by M. P. Boseman. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare
Deep Rivers: Selected Writings on Tamil Literature. By François Gros. Translated by M. P. Boseman. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare. Institut Français de Pondichéry Publications Hors Série, vol. 10. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry and Tamil Chair, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2009. Pp. xxxviii + 519
James McHugh. Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture
Journal Article James McHugh. Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. Get access James McHugh. Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture. New York: Oxford University Press. 2012. Pp. xix, 322. $35.00. Martha Ann Selby Martha Ann Selby University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 2, April 2014, Pages …
Somatic Lessons: Narrating Patienthood and Illness in Indian Medical Literature, written by Anthony Cerulli
Projit Bihari Mukharji, Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences
Projit Mukharji’s new book, Doctoring Traditions, is ‘about therapeutic change in Ayurvedic medicine’, but it is about so much more than that. For those of us who work on Ayurveda in its classical forms as well as in its modern iterations, much that we encounter is dissonance in practice and vocabulary. Mukharji writes of a very specific form of Ayurveda that is distinct and separate from the classical Ayurveda of the Sanskrit texts from the earl…
The Ecology of Friendship: Early Tamil Landscapes of Irony and Voice
This article is a brief study of four female characters—a pair of daughters and a pair of mothers—who give voice to the majority of the poems in the Aiṅkuṟunūṟu, an Old Tamil anthology of love poetry from the early decades of the third century CE. Taking cues from recent ethnographies on friendship in South Asia and from Alan Bray’s compelling study of friendship in modern Britain, I will examine the ways in which bonds between female friends are…
Four Hundred Songs of Love: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil. The Akananuru. Translated and annotated by George L. Hart
The Four Hundred Songs of Love: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil. The Akanāṉūṟu. Translated and annotated by George L. Hart. Regards sur l’Asie du Sud/South Asian Perspectives, no. 7. Pondichéry: Institut FrançaIs de Pondichéry, 2015. Pp. xx + 485. Rs. 1000, €43
On Anatomical Enumeration and Difference in Early Sanskrit Medical Literature
What does it mean to inventory all the components of the human body, and what do those inventories tell us about medical ideas and practice? I compare the lists of body parts in the śārīra-sthānas (sections relating to the body) of the Caraka-saṃhitā (ca. first century CE ) and the Suśruta-saṃhitā (ca. second century CE ). Rather than provide a detailed list of differences, I contemplate what these differences “mean” in terms of counting as a pra…
Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation of the Akananuru (Part 1—Kalirriyanainirai), vol. I: Introduction, Invocation–50; vol. II: 51–120; vol. III: Old Commentary on Kalirriyanainirai KV–90; Wo…
A Critical Edition and an Annotated Translation of the Akanānūru (Part 1—Kaḷiṟṟiyāṉainirai), vol. I: Introduction, Invocation–50; vol. II: 51–120; vol. III: Old Commentary on Kaḷiṟṟiyāṉainirai KV–90; Word Index of Akanānūru KV–120. By Eva Wilden. Collection Indologie, vol. 134.1–3. Critical Texts of Caṅkam Literature, vol. 4.1–3. NETamil Series, vol. 1.1–3. Pondichéry: École Française d’Extrême-Orient and Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2018. Pp…
Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary. Edited by Eva Wilden
Between Preservation and Recreation: Tamil Traditions of Commentary. Edited by Eva Wilden. École Française d’Extrême-Orient Collection Indologie, vol. 109. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry / École Française d’Extrême-Orient, 2009. Pp. xiv + 319
Passages: Relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare
Passages: Relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit. Edited by Kannan M. and Jennifer Clare. Institut Français de Pondichéry, Publications Hors Série, vol. 11. Pondichéry: Institut Français de Pondichéry and Tamil Chair, Department of South and Southeast Asian studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2009. Pp. xxxvi + 380
Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda. By Dagmar Wujastyk
Well-Mannered Medicine: Medical Ethics and Etiquette in Classical Ayurveda. By Dagmar Wujastyk. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. vi + 238. $38.95
Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid
The Archaeology of Bhakti I: Mathurā and Maturai, Back and Forth. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid. Pondichéry: École Française d'Extrême-Orient and Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2014. Pp. xiv + 366
Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid
The Archaeology of Bhakti II: Royal Bhakti, Local Bhakti. Edited by Emmanuel Francis and Charlotte Schmid. Collection Indologie, no. 132. Pondicherry: Institut Français de Pondichéry; Paris: École Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2016. Pp. x + 609, illus
Tamil: A Biography. By David Shulman
Tamil: A Biography. By David Shulman. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 402
On the Plastic Surgery of the Ears and Nose: The Nepalese Version of the “Suśrutasaṃhitā”, written by Dominik Wujastyk et al
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