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The Color of Gender - On Substance, Sex Determination, and Anatomical Difference in the Caraka and Susruta-samhitas

12 may 2008 17:00 - 19:00

Maison Suger, 16-18 rue Suger 75006 Paris.

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Séminaire organisé dans le cadre du programme "Médecines et religions en Asie du Sud " : "The Color of Gender - On Substance, Sex Determination, and Anatomical Difference in the Caraka and Susruta-samhitas"

 

This lecture will delineate my preliminary thoughts in formulating a description of the semiotics of gender in the contexts of the plural medical worlds of classical South Asia, and will serve as a bit of a background for my second and third lectures. I draw my materials from two fundamental Sanskrit medical manuals, the Carak-samhita (which dates from around the first or second century C.E., and is the earliest surviving medical manual in Sanskrit) and the Susruta-samhita, redacted perhaps a hundred or so years later).

 

Chercheur invitée : Martha Ann Selby

 

Martha Ann SELBY, Professeur associé, Littérature classique sanscrite et tamoule - University of Texas, Austin, (Etats-Unis).


Thème de recherche :

    * "Medical literature in sanskrit, poetry and poetics in sanscrit and tamil"

 

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