The Politics of Preservation and Loss: Tibetan Medical Knowledge in Exile
Short Title:
The Politics of Preservation and Loss
Format:
Journal Article
Publication Year:
Submitted
Sources ID:
92966
Notes:
Accession Number: 122734129; Kloos, Stephan 1; Email Address: skloos@gmail.com; Affiliation: 1: Institute for Social Anthropology, Austria; Source Info: Jun2017, Vol. 11 Issue 2, p135; Subject Term: TIBETAN medicine; Subject Term: TRADITIONAL knowledge; Subject Term: CULTURAL hegemony; Subject Term: HISTORY of medicine; Subject Term: RHETORIC; Author-Supplied Keyword: cultural preservation; Author-Supplied Keyword: knowledge/power; Author-Supplied Keyword: medical history; Author-Supplied Keyword: nationalism; Author-Supplied Keyword: Sowa Rigpa; Author-Supplied Keyword: Tibetan medicine; Number of Pages: 25p; Document Type: Article
Collection:
Himalayan and Tibetan Medicine
Visibility:
Public (group default)
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This article analyses the history and development of Tibetan medicine in exile from the perspective of the pervasive Tibetan exile narrative of preservation and loss. Through combined ethnographic and historical data, it shows how the preservation of