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Author: Roman Sieler (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Heidelberg University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.10cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780190243869
ISBN 10: 0190243864
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 25 June 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
This is an outstanding and original study of the intersection of traditional medicine and martial arts in South India. The ethnography is sensitive and insightful, immersing the reader in the daily lives of specialists of bodily training and therapies. Sieler frames this rich local detail in broad discussions of medical anthropology, tradition, secrecy, and martial arts. This is rigorous and cutting-edge scholarship. --Richard S. Weiss, author of Recipes for Immortality: Medicine, Religion and Community in South India
[T]his book makes an excellent scholarly contribution that will be valuable to scholars of Indology, South Asian religions, Hinduism, martial arts, traditional medicine, and anthropology. --Asian Medicine This is an outstanding and original study of the intersection of traditional medicine and martial arts in South India. The ethnography is sensitive and insightful, immersing the reader in the daily lives of specialists of bodily training and therapies. Sieler frames this rich local detail in broad discussions of medical anthropology, tradition, secrecy, and martial arts. This is rigorous and cutting-edge scholarship. --Richard S. Weiss, author of Recipes for Immortality: Medicine, Religion and Community in South India
This is an outstanding and original study of the intersection of traditional medicine and martial arts in South India. The ethnography is sensitive and insightful, immersing the reader in the daily lives of specialists of bodily training and therapies. Sieler frames this rich local detail in broad discussions of medical anthropology, tradition, secrecy, and martial arts. This is rigorous and cutting-edge scholarship. Richard S. Weiss, author of Recipes for Immortality: Medicine, Religion and Community in South India
Author Information
"Roman Sieler has a PhD in cultural anthropology from South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University (2011). His research interests include siddha medicine and the transmission and practice of non-institutionalized forms of health care in India, especially bonesetting and other forms of manual medicine. Currently, Sieler is Assistant Professor of anthropology at the South Asia Institute, where he coordinates the MA program ""Health and Society in South Asia."" He is also an affiliate postdoctoral researcher at the French Institute of Pondicherry, India."
