Modern Ayurveda in Transnational Context

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4299302
AutoresMaya Warrier (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume5
Fascículo3
Páginas80-93
Data de publicação2011-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8171.2011.00264.x
OpenAlexW1582206655
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas43

Ayurveda, the ancient system of Indian medicine rooted in Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies, remained relatively under-researched in the humanities and social sciences until the 1970s. It is only in the last four decades that it has received significant scholarly attention, from Indologists and Sanskritists, as well as historians, anthropologists and sociologists. In recent times, the volume of research on modern and transnational Ayurveda has grown, not least because of the growing popularity of this tradition in Western Europe and North America. This survey offers a brief overview of scholarship on the 'classical' or 'traditional' form of Ayurveda elaborated in ancient Sanskrit texts, before going on to review literature tracing the development of modern Ayurveda both in postcolonial South Asia, as well as in global and transnational settings

Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Hinduism · Literature · Political science · Popularity · Sanskrit · Sanskrit literature · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · South asia · Tibetan medicine · Traditional medicine · Anthropology · Classics · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology