Healing at the periphery : ethnographies of Tibetan medicine in India /

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Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	viii, 211 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Medicine, Tibetan. Traditional medicine -- India. Traditional medicine -- Himalaya Mountains Region. Medical anthropology -- India. Medical anthropology -- Himalaya Mountains Region. Medical anthropology. Medicine, Tibetan. Traditional medicine. Himalaya Mountains Region. India.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12705344

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Other authors / contributors:	Pordié, Laurent, editor. Kloos, Stephan, editor.
ISBN:	9781478013525 1478013524 9781478014454 1478014458 9781478021759
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."--
Other form:	Online version: Healing at the periphery. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021 9781478021759

Table of 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.

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