{"product_id":"9781478014454-healing-at-the-periphery","title":"Healing at the Periphery","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEthnographies of Tibetan Medicine in India. The contributors to \u003ci\u003eHealing at the Periphery\u003c\/i\u003e examine \u003ci\u003eSowa Rigpa\u003c\/i\u003e, or Tibetan medicine, and the central part practitioners of Tibetan healing known as \u003ci\u003eamchis\u003c\/i\u003e play in Indian Himalayan communities and the exile Tibetan community. India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or \u003ci\u003eamchi\u003c\/i\u003e, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume examines the crucial moment of crisis and transformation that occurred in the early 2000s to offer insights into the beginnings of Tibetan medicine's professionalization, industrialization, and official recognition in India and elsewhere. Based on fine-grained ethnographic studies in Ladakh, Zangskar, Sikkim, and the Darjeeling Hills, \u003ci\u003eHealing at the Periphery\u003c\/i\u003e asks how the dynamics of capitalism, social change, and the encounter with biomedicine affect small communities on the fringes of modern India, and, conversely, what local transformations of Tibetan medicine tell us about contemporary society and health care in the Himalayas and the Tibetan world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig, Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guérin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordié\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40823312056417,"sku":"9781478014454","price":21.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/89e62d7153ec3910528d64be11403b57.png?v=1683303318","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781478014454-healing-at-the-periphery","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}