Papers by brigitte sebastia
Les rondes de saint Antoine, 2007
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 16, 2009
-Brigitte Sebastia(edi.), 2009 ब्रिगिट्टे सेबास्तिया के संपादन में और ऑक्सफोर्ड यूनी. प्रेस द्वार... more -Brigitte Sebastia(edi.), 2009 ब्रिगिट्टे सेबास्तिया के संपादन में और ऑक्सफोर्ड यूनी. प्रेस द्वारा प्रकाशित किताब Restoring Mental Health In India: Pluralistic Therapies and concepts में भारत के विभिन्न राज्यों में भिन्न रूपों में मानसिक स्वास्थ्य पर उपचार कर लाभ पहुंचानेवाली थेरेपिज उपलब्ध है, विभीन्न लेखकों द्वारा किए गए शोध अध्ययनों के अंतर्गत पाए गए विश्लेषण को इस किताब में संपादित किया गया है.
Asian Medicine, Mar 14, 2022
Compared to ayurveda, siddha medical practice and use outside India has hardly been investigated.... more Compared to ayurveda, siddha medical practice and use outside India has hardly been investigated. Based on an ethnography of siddha and ayurveda clinics conducted in 2019 in Singapore, and secondarily, in southern Malaysia, this paper analyzes the development of these medicines in terms of adaptations, transformations, and the strategies or avoidance necessary to respond to clients/patients’ demands and to fit in with the regulations for traditional medicines. Whereas siddha medicine is well established in Malaysia, it is hardly discernible in Singapore, represented by only two clinics: a long-standing one reflecting the tradition, and a recent one, illustrating the process of modernization impelled by the institutionalization of medical knowledge. The practice of ayurveda, by contrast, has seen a significant expansion since the beginning of the twenty-first century in these two countries, a dynamism impelled by its reputation abroad which has been spurring Indian practitioners to migrate and popularize it.
Le manque d’efficacité des praticiens de médecines savantes (ṭaktar, cittavaittiyar) et populaire... more Le manque d’efficacité des praticiens de médecines savantes (ṭaktar, cittavaittiyar) et populaires (mantiravāti, kōṭānki, kuṟikkāraṉ), la persistance des troubles et la difficulté pour la famille de contrôler le patient, sont autant de raisons qui justifient le séjour au sanctuaire thérapeutique de Puliyampatti. Ce lieu est pour beaucoup le dernier espoir pour obtenir une guérison. Du fait que les praticiens de médecines savantes n’ont détecté aucun problème physique, la famille soupçonne for..
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2013
Puliyampatti appartient au diocèse de Palayamkottai « ville jumelle de Tirunelveli » créé en 1971... more Puliyampatti appartient au diocèse de Palayamkottai « ville jumelle de Tirunelveli » créé en 1971 à partir du partage du vaste diocèse de Madurai. Situé à 25 kilomètres de Puliyampatti, cet ensemble urbain Tirunelveli-Palayamkottai concentre les spécificités hindoues et chrétiennes que l’on retrouve dispersées dans les villages de la région. Dans cet aperçu historique, mon intérêt se portera tout particulièrement sur la conversion des pêcheurs paravar qui forment une forte proportion des pèle..
Culture, Health & Sexuality, Sep 13, 2013
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Mar 1, 2019
for having welcomed me as a visiting scholar for five weeks in February-March2019. I express my d... more for having welcomed me as a visiting scholar for five weeks in February-March2019. I express my deep gratitude to the siddha and ayurveda practitioners who gave as much time as they could to share with me their medical experience in Singapore and in Malaysia. I think especially of Mr Mathivaran who did not hesitate to spend a part of his Sunday to drive me to the aged informal siddha practitioner. 2 AYUSH refers to Ayurveda, Yoga/Naturopathy, Unani (Greco-Arab medicine), Siddha and Homeopathy. From the use of pan-Indian medicines, I exclude medicines which did not originate in India, among them Unani, a medical system composed of Greek, Arab and Indian influences, Homeopathy and Naturopathy, as well as Yoga which is not systematically practised for medical purposes.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), May 14, 2011
HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific re... more HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt età la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, emanant desétablissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ouétrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Jul 16, 2009
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2017
This was not always so. Studies on food consumption in ancient India show that cow’s meat was the... more This was not always so. Studies on food consumption in ancient India show that cow’s meat was the most valued of foods and served during festivals and rituals and to welcome important guests (Jhā 2009; Prakash 1961). Its gradual proscription by Hindu upper castes results from a long movement of ‘sacralisation’ of the cow that emerged with a revival of Brahmanism aimed at thwarting influential movements by Buddhists and Jains against animal sacrifice (Jhā ibid.; Shah 1967). This prohibition grew stricter during the nineteenth century when Hindu nationalists struggled to protect cows from being slaughtered. Brandished as the symbol of Hindu identity, or according to Shraddha Chigateri (2011: 141) as “a potent symbol of religious difference”, the cow was used overtly as a tool for stirring up religious hatred against Muslims, and less openly against the British, both regarded as consumers of beef, and as anti-Hindus. Although the Hindu lower castes were not directly targeted by Hindu nationalists, they were blamed for their undesirable food habits and exhorted to give them up (Abbasayulu 1980).
Governmental institutions vs. associations.: The multifaceted expression of Siddha medicine in Ta... more Governmental institutions vs. associations.: The multifaceted expression of Siddha medicine in Tamil Nadu. Article qui sera publié dans un ouvrage collectif. 2012. <halshs-00408677>
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), Mar 7, 2008
International audienceThe priest in Puliyampatti considers the possessed people who frequent the ... more International audienceThe priest in Puliyampatti considers the possessed people who frequent the shrine as affected bypsychiatric disorders or psychological problems. He does not recognize them as possessed by evil spiritsand thus refuses to practice ritual exorcism. His refusal has resulted by the practice of informaltherapeutic rituals carefully observed by the relatives who accompany the patients.This paper examines the evolution of the Church regarding possession, and then explores theambivalent position of relatives. These relatives are involved in the therapeutic process and exert on thepatient violence and pressure during exorcisms (while they express their affection and attention outsidethe rituals), but they also are perceived as responsible of the occurrence of illness due to the fact theyhave committed a transgression or a mistake
Routledge eBooks, Nov 18, 2022
my chapter in this book: &quot;Lost in Tradition: An attempt to go beyond labels, taking Malt... more my chapter in this book: &quot;Lost in Tradition: An attempt to go beyond labels, taking Maltese food practices as primary example.&quot;
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2022
It is often after a first recourse to biomedicine that Indians turn to traditional medicines, not... more It is often after a first recourse to biomedicine that Indians turn to traditional medicines, notably to siddha. Siddha practitioners are mostly consulted for joint and bone disorders, digestive and sexual troubles, and skin diseases. However, they are increasingly approached for the treatment of diseases related to metabolic syndrome which have emerged over the past two decades as the result of rapid change in diet and lifestyle. If siddha doctors who have studied in colleges are better equipped to treat these pathologies thanks to their training which integrates biomedical disciples and the study of recently developed diseases, traditional siddha practitioners have to develop their own means because they have not inherited any knowledge for treating these diseases which were too rare in the past. Based on the observations of two reputed traditional siddha practitioners, this article intends showing how they adapt to the need of their diabetic patients by calling on their traditional as well as other sources of medical knowledge.
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