Healing at the periphery : ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India / Laurent Pordié and Stephan Kloos, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pordié, Laurent, editor.

Kloos, Stephan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Tibetan.

Traditional medicine--India.

Traditional medicine.

Traditional medicine--Himalaya Mountains Region.

Medical anthropology--India.

Medical anthropology.

Medical anthropology--Himalaya Mountains Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478021759

1478021756

OCLC:

1269504862