Format:
viii, 211 Seiten
,
Karten
ISBN:
9781478013525
,
9781478014454
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478021759
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Healing at the periphery Durham : Duke University Press, 2021
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Healing at the periphery Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781478021759
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Ladakh
;
Volksmedizin
;
Heiler
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Pordié, Laurent
