Healing at the periphery : ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India /

"The contributors to Healing at the Periphery examine Sowa Rigpa, or Tibetan medicine, and the central part practitioners of Tibetan healing known as amchis play in Indian Himalayan communities and the exile Tibetan community."--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Temas:
Medicine, Tibetan.
Traditional medicine > India.
Traditional medicine > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Medical anthropology > India.
Medical anthropology > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Médecine tibétaine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Medical anthropology
Medicine, Tibetan
Traditional medicine
Himalaya Mountains Region
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Indian face of Sowa Rigpa / Stephan Kloos and Laurent Pordié
  • The amchi as villager : status and its refusal in Ladakh / Fernanda Pirie
  • Good medicines, bad hearts : the social role of the amchi in a Buddhist Dard community /Stephan Kloos
  • Where there is no amchi : Tibetan medicine and rural-urban migration among nomadic pastoralists in Ladakh / Calum Blaikie
  • The monetarization of Tibetan medicine : an ethnography of village-based development activities in Lingshed / Florian Besch and Isabelle Guérin
  • The amchi at the margins : notes on childbirth practices in Ladakh / Laurent Pordié and Pascale Hancart Petitet
  • A case of wind disorder : the interplay of amchi medicine and ritual treatments in Zangskar / Kim Gutschow
  • Allegiance to whose community? effects of Men-Tsee-Khang policies on the role of amchi in the Darjeeling hills / Barbara Gerke
  • Afterword: When "periphery" becomes central / Sienna R. Craig.

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