ISBN:
9781478013525
,
9781478014454
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 211 Seiten
,
Karten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Healing at the periphery
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Healing at the periphery
DDC:
610.954
Keywords:
Medicine, Tibetan
;
Traditional medicine
;
Traditional medicine
;
Medical anthropology
;
Medical anthropology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
;
HISTORY / Asia / General
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Ladakh
;
Volksmedizin
;
Heiler
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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