Indigenous medicine and cultural hegemony: A study of the revitalization movement in Keralam

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Indigenous medicine and cultural hegemony: A study of the revitalization movement in Keralam

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Indigenous medicine and cultural hegemony: A study of the revitalization movement in Keralam

01 Aug 1992-Studies in History (Sage PublicationsSage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA)-Vol. 8, Iss: 2, pp 283-308

TL;DR: This paper argued that the progress achieved by the West pointed to the possible directions for future, but how the past should figure in the new order was quite uncertain and underlined the possible loss of cultural heritage.

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Abstract: view, critical of traditional cultural and social practices.’ Their agenda for change, however, was not based on westernization, but a selective rejection and reform of the present. The progress achieved by the West pointed to the possible directions for future, but how the past should figure in the new order was quite uncertain. The increasing influence of colonial culture heightened this uncertainty and underlined the possible loss of cultural heritage. As a result the intellectuals were caught in a paradox: to discard the old and create a new cultural milieu, on the one hand, and to preserve or retrieve the traditional cultural space so that past is not swept off the ground. The efforts to reconcile this paradox led to a critical inquiry into both the past as well as the present. The movement for the revitalization of

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...…group of scholars, is a significant lack of focus on the role of public policy and the state (including colonial and national governments) and political economy in the making or unmaking of a knowledge system (Banerji, 1981; Frankenberg, 1980, 1981; Gupta, 1976; Panikkar, 1992; Ramasubban, 1982)....
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...Common to all these views, as also suggested by a third group of scholars, is a significant lack of focus on the role of public policy and the state (including colonial and national governments) and political economy in the making or unmaking of a knowledge system (Banerji, 1981; Frankenberg, 1980, 1981; Gupta, 1976; Panikkar, 1992; Ramasubban, 1982)....
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...Here, works of Leslie (1976a, 1976b, 1992), Metcalf (1985), Brass (1972), Panikkar (1992), Arnold and Sarkar (2002), and Quaiser (2001) are particularly useful and can help us in assessing the nationalist discourse....
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...also been questions raised about class contradictions and hegemonic projects led and sponsored by national elites at the cost of popular medical practices (Arnold, 1993; Metcalf, 1985; Panikkar, 1992)....
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...S. Khan / Social Science & Medicine 62 (2006) 2786–2797 2787 also been questions raised about class contradictions and hegemonic projects led and sponsored by national elites at the cost of popular medical practices (Arnold, 1993; Metcalf, 1985; Panikkar, 1992)....
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