Healing at the Periphery

Ethnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India
Herausgeber: Pordié, Laurent; Kloos, Stephan

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013525
• ISBN-10: 1478013524
• Artikelnr.: 61258521

Autorenporträt

Laurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The Indian Face of Sowa Rigpa / Stephan Kloos and Laurent
Pordié  1
1. The Amchi as Villager: Status and Its Refusal in Ladakh / Fernanda
Pirie  23
2. Good Medicines, Bad Hearts: The Social Role of the Amchi in a Buddhist
Dard Community / Stephan Kloos  41
3. Where There is No Amchi: Tibetan Medicine and Rural-Urban Migration
Among Nomadic Pastoralists in Ladakh / Calum Blaikie  65
4. The Monetarization of Tibetan Medicine: An Ethnography of Village-Based
Development Activities in Lingshed / Florian Besch and Isabelle Guérin  95
5. The Amchi at the Margins: Notes on Childbirth Practices in Ladakh /
Laurent Pordié and Pascale Hancart Petitet  119
6. A Case of Wind Disorder: The Interplay of Amchi Medicine and Ritual
Treatments in Zangskar / Kim Gutschow  143
7. Allegiance to Whose Community? Effects of Men-Tsee-Khang Policies on the
Role of Amchi in the Darjeeling Hills / Barbara Gerke  171
Afterword. When "Periphery" Becomes Central / Sienna R. Craig  197
Contributors  201
Index  205