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

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"