Martin Saxer

Gebundenes Buch

Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine

The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness

Beschreibung

Describes how the Tibetan medicine industry has become central to the debate about Tibet's future Explains how considerations of profit and capital have transformed the industry into producing commodities for the Chinese national market

Autor

Martin Saxer received a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Oxford and is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Since 2003, he has worked on the history and contemporary practice of Tibetan medicine in Russia (Buryatia) and Tibet. He is the director of the documentary film a¿¿Journeys with Tibetan Medicinea¿¿ and runs the visual ethnography blog .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780857457721
• ISBN-10: 0857457721
• Artikelnr.: 38556318