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Medicine and Memory in Tibet
- Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Engelsk Hardback
Medicine and Memory in Tibet
- Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Engelsk Hardback

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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004

Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitioners, or amchi, and of Medical Houses in the west-central region of Tsang.

Due to difficult research access and the power of state institutions in the writing of history, the perspectives of more marginal amchi have been absent from most accounts of Tibetan medicine. Theresia Hofer breaks new ground both theoretically and ethnographically, in ways that would be impossible in today’s more restrictive political climate that severely limits access for researchers. She illuminates how medical practitioners safeguarded their professional heritage through great adversity and personal hardship.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
304
ISBN-13:
9780295742984
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0295742984
Udg. Dato:
3 apr 2018
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
236mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato:
3 apr 2018
Forfatter(e):
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