The Indian System of Human Marks

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-29972-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Sanskrit, Band 15, 954 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1792 g

Reihe: Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series

In The Indian System of Human Marks, Zysk offers a literary history of the Indian system of knowledge, which details divination by means of the marks on the bodies of both men and women. In addition to a historical analysis, the work includes texts and translations of the earliest treatises in Sanskrit. This is followed by a detailed philological analysis of the texts.
The history traces the Indian system's roots in ancient Mesopotamian collections of omen on the human body to modern-day practice in Rajasthan in the north and Tamilnadu in the south. A special feature of the book is Zysk's edition and translation of the earliest textual collection of the system in the Gargiyajyotisa from the 1st century CE. The system of human marks is one of the few Indian textual sources that links ancient India with the antique cultures of Mesopotamia and Greece.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zysk, Kenneth G

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zysk, Kenneth G.

Zysk, Kenneth G

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth G. Zysk, PhD (1981), Austrialian National University, DPhil (2001) University of Oslo, is Lektor (Associate Professor) of Indology at the University of Copenhagen. He has published many books and articles on the Indian traditions of medicine and eroticism, including Conjugal Love in India (Brill, 2002) (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, Vol. 1).