- Author
- Title
- Ayurvedic and Unani health and beauty products: Reworking India's medical traditions
- Supervisors
- Award date
- 15 June 2004
- Publisher
- Amsterdam
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Note
- Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.244141
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Thesis
Cover
Titlepage
Contents
Preface
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Introduction: The Anatomy of the study
Chapter 1: The Kitchen, the Government and the Market: the Commodification of Indian Medicine
Chapter 2: Manufacturers, Products and Markets: Sameness and Uniqueness
Chapter 3: The Un-Bridged Gap: Reworking Ayurvedic and Unani Substances through Modern Science and Technology
Chapter 4: The Representation of Indian Health and Beauty Products in the Advertising Media: Traditions, Modernity and Nature
Chapter 5: The Construction of an Indian Modernity: Inspiring Nationalism as Reaction to the Inroads of Westernization
General Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Summary
Samenvatting (Summary in Dutch)
Illustrations
Cover
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