Histories Of Health And Materiality In The Indian Ocean World

Author : Anne Gerritsen,Burton Cleetus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781350195882

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Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better understand the history of medicine and its role in global connections since the early 17th century.

Author : Anne Gerritsen,Burton Cleetus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350195905

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Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World by Anne Gerritsen,Burton Cleetus Pdf

Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better understand the history of medicine and its role in global connections since the early 17th century.

Author : Apalak Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003862246

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Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal by Apalak Das Pdf

Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health problem, especially in India and Brazil. There are a few maladies that eventually turn into social disquiets, and leprosy is undoubtedly one of them. This book traces the dynamics of the interface between colonial policy on leprosy and religion, science and society in Bengal from the mid-nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries. It explores how the idea of ‘degeneration’ and the ‘desolates’ shaped the colonial legality of segregating ‘lepers’ in Indian society. The author also delves into the treatments of leprosy that were often transfigured from ‘original’ English texts, written by American or British medical professionals, into Bengali. Rich in archival resources, this book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, Indian history, public health, social history, medical humanities, medical history and colonial history.

Author : Auguste Toussaint
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Africa
ISBN : LCCN:bin00001487

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History of the Indian Ocean by Auguste Toussaint Pdf

Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Indian Ocean Region
ISBN : 0415312779

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The Indian Ocean in World History by Milo Kearney Pdf

The history of the Indian Ocean provides a snapshot of many of the key issues in world history.

Author : Smriti Srinivas,Bettina Ng'weno,Neelima Jeychandran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000062168

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Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds by Smriti Srinivas,Bettina Ng'weno,Neelima Jeychandran Pdf

This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship, thus moving away from an area-based and geographical approach to Indian Ocean studies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines focus on keywords such as relationality, space/place, quotidian practices, and new networks of memory and maps to offer original insights to reimagine the Indian Ocean. While the volume as a whole considers older histories, mobilities, and relationships between places in Indian Ocean worlds, it is centrally concerned with new connectivities and layered mappings forged in the lived experiences of individuals and communities today. The chapters are steeped in ethnographic, multi-modal, and other humanities methodologies that examine different sources besides historical archives and textual materials, including everyday life, cities, museums, performances, the built environment, media, personal narratives, food, medical practices, or scientific explorations. An important contribution to several fields, this book will be of interest to academics of Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Asian linkages, inter-Asian exchanges, Afro-Arab crossroads, Asian studies, African studies, Anthropology, History, Geography, and International Relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004402713

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Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World by Anonim Pdf

In Travelling Pasts, edited by Burkhard Schnepel and Tansen Sen, the contributors investigate the politics of cultural heritage in the Indian Ocean world, placing special emphasis on the question of how people and historical imaginations have travelled and connected this maritime macro-region.

Author : Anna Winterbottom,Facil Tesfaye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137567581

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Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World, Volume Two by Anna Winterbottom,Facil Tesfaye Pdf

The Indian Ocean has been the site of multiple interconnected medical interactions that may be viewed in the context of the environmental factors connecting the region. This interdisciplinary work presents essays on various aspects of disease, medicine, and healing in different locations in and around the Indian Ocean from the eighteenth century to the contemporary era. The essays explore theoretical explanations for disease, concepts of fertility, material culture, healing in relation to diplomacy and colonialism, public health, and the health of slaves and migrant workers. This book will appeal to academics and graduate students working in the fields of medical and scientific history, as well as in the growing fields of Indian Ocean studies and global history.

Author : Burkhard Schnepel,Julia Verne
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821447475

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Cargoes in Motion by Burkhard Schnepel,Julia Verne Pdf

An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world. Scholars have long appreciated the centrality of trade and commerce in understanding the connectivity and mobility that underpin human experience in the Indian Ocean region. But studies of merchant and commercial activities have paid little attention to the role that cargoes have played in connecting the disparate parts of this vast oceanic world. Drawing from the work of anthropologists, geographers, and historians, Cargoes in Motion tells the story of how material objects have informed and continue to shape processes of exchange across the Indian Ocean. By following selected cargoes through both space and time, this book makes an important and innovative contribution to Indian Ocean studies. The multidisciplinary approach deepens our understanding of the nature and dynamics of the Indian Ocean world by showing how transoceanic connectivity has been driven not only by economic, social, cultural, and political factors but also by the materiality of the objects themselves. Essays by: Edward A. Alpers Fahad Ahmad Bishara Eva-Maria Knoll Karl-Heinz Kohl Lisa Jenny Krieg Pedro Machado Rupert Neuhöfer Mareike Pampus Hannah Pilgrim Burkhard Schnepel Hanne Schönig Tansen Sen Steven Serels Julia Verne Kunbing Xiao

Author : Michael Naylor Pearson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000115783577

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The Indian Ocean by Michael Naylor Pearson Pdf

In this stimulating and authoritative overview, the author looks from the sea to its shores - the land areas it influences through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1108341276

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The Worlds of the Indian Ocean by Anonim Pdf

"Europe's place in history is reassessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 C.E."--

Author : Shane Ewen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781509501328

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What is Urban History? by Shane Ewen Pdf

Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and clearly written guide to the study of urban history for the student, teacher, researcher or general reader who is new to the field and interested in learning about past approaches as well as key themes, concepts and trajectories for future research. He takes a global and comparative viewpoint, combining a discussion of classic texts with the latest literature to illustrate the current debates and controversies across the urban world. The historiography of the field is mapped out by theme, including new topics of interest, with a particular focus on space and social identity, power and governance, the built environment, culture and modernity, and the growth and spread of transnational networking. By discussing a number of historic and fast-growing cities across the world, What is Urban History? demonstrates the importance of the history of urban life to our understanding of the world, both in the present and the future. As a result, urban history remains pivotal for explaining the continued growth of towns and cities in a global context, and is particularly useful for identifying the various problems and solutions faced by fast-growing megacities in the developing world.

Author : Kavalam Madhava Panikkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : India
ISBN : 8194160537

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India and the Indian Ocean by Kavalam Madhava Panikkar Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Lambourn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107173880

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Abraham's Luggage by Elizabeth Lambourn Pdf

A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.

Author : Sanyal Sanjeev
Publisher : India Puffin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0143446010

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Incredible History of the Indian Ocean by Sanyal Sanjeev Pdf

An adaptation of The Ocean of Churn for young readers When did the first humans arrive in India and how did they get here? What are Roman artefacts from hundreds of years ago doing in a town near Puducherry? How did merchants from Arabia end up near Kochi? From the east coast of Africa to Australia, one big blue body of water has connected diverse peoples and cultures for thousands of years: the incredible Indian Ocean. Read on to learn about the fearless travellers and sailors, pirates and conquerors who set out to cross the ocean in search of gold and glory, and discover how geography can shape the course of history.