Vitus Angermeier

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About

I am a scholar in the field of South Asian Studies / Indology, especially interested in Ayurveda, the Indian epics and the Arthaśāstra. Within these areas I prefer to work on themes like nature reception, conceptions of geography and space, cultural development and ethical concepts.
Current project (PI): Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia.

Education

MA and PhD at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Mastodon Feed

Here are the slides of my paper presented at the ECSAS 2023 in Torino. Published under a CC by-nc-sa licence. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17613/ge8b-nv84. Results in one sentence: Because epidemics were understood as originally caused by Dharma, those who are not yet predestined to die due to their previous deeds, are advised to take recourse to individual preventive measures that are in favour of Dharma. (2023-08-02 ↗)

Next #IIGRS will be in Cambridge, UK! https://iigrs.wordpress.com/call-for-papers/ #indology #graduates #southasianstudies (2023-05-05 ↗)

Done! The first #OA Puṣpika volume is available here: https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1133 Many thanks to our publisher hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de and everyone else who was involved in making this happen! (2023-01-26 ↗)

This week at the ISTB in Vienna: Péter-Dániel Szántó on "A Buddhist Preacher on Gambling" https://stb.univie.ac.at/news-events/detail/news/a-buddhist-preacher-on-gambling/?tx_news_pi1%5Bcontroller%5D=News&tx_news_pi1%5Baction%5D=detail&cHash=b99cdc31fc00646a9a384404dbb9617a #Buddhism #Gambling (2023-01-23 ↗)

Here is the table of contents from the forthcoming #Puṣpikā volume. Heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed! @ggee_eegg@twitter.com @wattelier_bricout_amandine @DominikAHaas and many others. #SouthAsianStudies #Indology #OpenAccess (2023-01-09 ↗)

Blog Posts

Publications

Angermeier, Vitus, Christian Ferstl, Dominik A. Haas, and Channa Li, eds. Puṣpikā: Proceedings of the 12th International Indology Graduate Research Symposium (Vienna, 2021). Puṣpikā. Tracing Ancient India through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology 6. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1133.

„The Seasons in Ancient Indian Medicine: Long Winters or Extensive Rains?“ History of Science in South Asia 10 (12. Oktober 2022): 247–71. https://doi.org/10.18732/hssa89.

Review of A Brief History of Āyurveda, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 174. £34.99. Hdbk. ISBN 978-0-1901-2108-2, by M. R. Raghava Varier. Social History of Medicine (19 February 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkab026.
Full review:: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-article/doi/10.1093/shm/hkab026/6144799?guestAccessKey=9c4db26e-68a6-40f4-a3c3-dd277e879ea2

Regenzeiten, Feuchtgebiete, Körpersäfte. Das Wasser in der klassischen indischen Medizin. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2020.
verlag.oeaw.ac.at/regenzeiten-feuchtgebiete-koerpersaefte (OA-Publikation)

„agni and soma Revisited: A Primordial Ayurvedic Concept?“ In: Body and Cosmos. Studies in Early Indian Medical and Astral Sciences in Honor of Kenneth G. Zysk, edited by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Jacob Schmidt-Madsen, and Sara Speyer, Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series 20. Leiden: Brill, 2021, pp. 15–32. doi.org/10.1163/9789004438224_004
Pre-peer-review-version available here: http://www.academia.edu/44239702/

„Krankheitsprävention im Ayurveda: Pragmatisches Recycling und historische Brüche“. polylog 42: Gesundheit und Heilung (2020): 7–20. http://www.polylog.net/?id=284
A longer draft version of this article is available here: http://www.academia.edu/43177003/

„Untangling Multiple Topographical Systems: Conceptions of Landscapes in Ancient Indian Medicine“. eJournal of Indian Medicine 9, Nr. 2 (2017): 39–62. rjh.ub.rug.nl/eJIM/article/view/30233

Projects

Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia, research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): https://epidemics.univie.ac.at/

Upcoming Talks and Conferences

ECSAS 2023, 26 to 29 July at the University of Turin. Joint panel with Dr. Julia Shaw (UCL): Health, disease and epidemics: multidisciplinary perspectives on the socio-ecology of medicine in pre-modern South Asia.

International Conference Conceptualizing Crisis in Antiquity. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, Rethymno, October 20-21, 2023. Presentation.

Memberships

FOASAS – Fair Open Access Publishing in South Asian Studies: https://foasas.org/ (founder and organizer)

EASAS – European Association for South Asian Studies: https://www.easas.eu/ (member)

Classical Ayurveda Text Study Group

History of Science in Early South Asia

Postdoc Reseacher, PI

University of Vienna