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Medicine and religion in South Asia
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Objectives
The relationship between folk and scholarly medical knowledge is often conceived in terms of an opposition between magic and religious ideas on one side, and rational and empirical ideas on the other. This conference aims at questioning this dichotomous opposition by showing how literary, scholarly theories interact and overlap with local, folk knowledge and practices. The participants will examine the shifting boundaries between religious ideas and diagnostic methods, worship and healing, rituals specialists and medical practitioners that mark scholarly traditions as well as folk practices.
By focusing both on textual and ethnographical material, the conference will investigate medical traditions - Ayurvedic and Tibetan - as well as other systems of knowledge used for therapeutic purposes in South Asia, such as demonology, Hindu astrology and Muslim onirology. The papers presented are included in the collective volume Divine Remedies. Medicine and Religion in South Asia (Purushartha collection, EHESS editions, forthcoming). The discussion will be followed by the projection of a documentary on possession cults in Puliyampatti (Tamil Nadu).
Programme
| Morning 9h30 |
Welcome speech : Yves Duroux, Directeur de l’Institut d’Etudes Avancées Ines G. Zupanov, CNRS/CEIAS |
| 10h00 – 12h30 | Chair : Gilles Tarabout (CEIAS, Paris) |
| 10h00 | David Gordon White (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA), Amulettes et lambeaux divins : « Superstition », vraie « religion » et « science » pure à la lumière de la démonologie hindoue. |
| 10h30 | Caterina Guenzi (IFP, Pondicherry / CEIAS, Paris), Planètes, remèdes et cosmologies. La thérapeutique astrologique à Bénarès. |
| 11h00 | Martha Ann Selby (University of Austin, Texas, USA), Between Medicine and Religion : Discursive Shifts in Early Ayurvedic Narratives of Conception and Gestation. |
| 11h30 | Discussion. |
| 13h00 – 14h30 | Lunch |
| Afternoon 14h30 – 17h30 |
Chair : Marc Gaborieau |
| 14h30 | Laurent Pordié (IFP, Pondicherry / CReCSS, Aix-en-Provence), Islam et médecine tibétaine. Ethnographie d’un praticien hétérodoxe. |
| 15h00 | Fabrizio Speziale (Mondes iranien et indien, Paris/Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome), Le médecin des rêves. Culte des saints et guérison onirique dans les sanctuaires musulmans du Deccan. |
| 15h30 | Discussion. |
| 16h30 | Projection of a documentary film « Les rondes de saint Antoine. Culte, affliction et possession à Puliyampatti », directed by Brigitte Sébastia (LISST/IFP) and Christian Sébastia. |
| 17h30 | Concluding remarks. |
Organizers
- Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS),
- French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP)
- Institut d’Études Avancées, Paris (IEA)
Funding
- Institut d’Études Avancées, Paris (IEA)
- Centre d’Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS),
- French Institute of Pondicherry (IFP)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Coordinators
Caterina Guenzi (IFP/CEIAS) et Ines G. Zupanov (CEIAS)
Participants
- Marc Gaborieau (CEIAS, paris)
- David Gordon White (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
- Caterina Guenzi (IFP, Pondicherry / CEIAS, Paris)
- Laurent Pordié (IFP, Pondicherry / CReCSS, Aix-en-Provence)
- Martha Ann Selby (University of Austin, Texas, USA)
- Fabrizio Speziale (Mondes iranien et indien, Paris / Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome)
- Brigitte Sébastia (IFP, Pondicherry/LISST, Toulouse)
- Gilles Tarabout (CEIAS, Paris)
Venue
Maison Suger, 16-18, rue Suger, 75006 Paris
Dernier ajout : 24 avril 2008.