Healing at the Periphery : Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kloos, Stephan (Editor ), Pordie, Laurent (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Traditional medicine.
Medicine, Tibetan.
Medical anthropology.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Medical anthropology > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Medical anthropology > India.
Traditional medicine > Himalaya Mountains Region.
Traditional medicine > India.
India.
Himalaya Mountains Region.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Indian face of Sowa Rigpa / Stephan Kloos and Laurent Pordie
  • 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 Guerin
  • The amchi at the margins : notes on childbirth practices in Ladakh / Laurent Pordie 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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