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Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform

ISBN: 9780295743004 ;ISBN: 029574300X ;ISBN: 0295742984 ;ISBN: 9780295742991 ;ISBN: 0295742992 ;ISBN: 9780295742984 ;EISBN: 9780295743004 ;EISBN: 029574300X ;DOI: 10.6069/9780295743004 ;OCLC: 1057677937

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Title:
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Author: Hofer, Theresia
Subjects: Anthropology ; Book Industry Communication ; Buddhism ; China-Relations-China-Tibet Autonomous Region ; Cultural ; Ethnicity-China-Tibet Autonomous Region-History ; history ; Medicine ; Medicine, Tibetan-History-20th century ; Medicine, Tibetan-History-21st century ; medicine; Tibet; medical revivalism ; Memory-Social aspects-China-Tibet Autonomous Region-History ; Physicians-China-Tibet Autonomous Region-History ; RELIGION ; Social & cultural anthropology ; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; Social and cultural anthropology ; Social change-China-Tibet Autonomous Region-History ; Social networks-China-Tibet Autonomous Region-History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Society & social sciences ; Society and Social Sciences ; Sociology & anthropology ; Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China)-Relations-China ; Tibet Autonomous Region (China)-Social conditions ; Tibetan
Description: 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.
Related Titles: Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
Publisher: Washington: University of Washington Press
Creation Date: 2018
Format: 304
Language: English
Identifier: ISBN: 9780295743004
ISBN: 029574300X
ISBN: 0295742984
ISBN: 9780295742991
ISBN: 0295742992
ISBN: 9780295742984
EISBN: 9780295743004
EISBN: 029574300X
DOI: 10.6069/9780295743004
OCLC: 1057677937
Source: OAPEN
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
JSTOR eBooks: Open Access

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Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform

ISBN: 9780295743004 ;ISBN: 029574300X ;ISBN: 0295742984 ;ISBN: 9780295742991 ;ISBN: 0295742992 ;ISBN: 9780295742984 ;EISBN: 9780295743004 ;EISBN: 029574300X ;DOI: 10.6069/9780295743004 ;OCLC: 1057677937

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