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Nature Cure and Ayurveda: Nationalism, Viscerality and Bio-ecology in India

Alter, Joseph S·2015·Body & Society
DOI 10.1177/1357034x14520757
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Nationalism can be closely associated with powerful feelings about the relationship among cultural heritage, identity and embodied experience. Almost by definition this relationship is expressed in terms of continuity, distinctiveness and the purity of tradition, to an extent that nationalistic sentiments can be said to be ‘visceral.’ Contrasting the way in which the body is implicated in nature cure and Ayurveda, two forms of medicine closely linked to nationalism in India, this article presents an analytical perspective on the embodiment of viscerality to provide a more nuanced understanding of how these experiences blur distinctions of cultural continuity and how an ecology of the body shapes the cultural politics of tradition in India.

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    “Y ogendra, Kuvayalananda, and other Indian pioneers of modern postural yoga were strongly influenced by German writings on naturopathy, a system based on the assumptions that the body has a natural ability to heal itself, that illness indicates unnatural living conditions, and that under natural conditions toxins will leave the body and enable healing (Alter 2004, 2015).”

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    “As a counter-culture philosophy, German Nature Cure suited colonial Indian activism and inspired the modernisation and medicalisation of yoga as an indigenous form of naturopathy (Alter 2015, 2000a; see also Hauser, this issue).”

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Authors
Alter, J. S.
Affiliations
University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
Alter, Joseph S
ORCID
Alter, Joseph S
Venue
Body & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2014-03-14
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
3-28
ISSN
  • 1357-034X (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3632
DOI
10.1177/1357034x14520757
OpenAlex
W2313613620
Cited by
34
References
1
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3
FWCI
10.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Body & Society (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Cultural History and Identity Formation
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
Keywords
nature cure, Ayurveda, nationalism, embodiment, cultural heritage, cultural identity, cultural continuity, cultural politics, Indian medicine

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