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Research bearing on Tibetan medicine has largely neglected ethnographic studies focused on the village level, preferring to study institutions and the effects of macro-scale policies and change processes. Little has been published to date concerning the social and medical practices of Tibetan medicine in the villages of the whole area of Tibetan cultural influence. What place does Tibetan medicine hold today in the depth of the Himalayas? What contributes to transforming it ? How can the analysis of these transformations shed light on the changes that affect the concerned communities?
In order to provide answers to these questions, the IFP, in partnership with the University of Aix-Marseille (CReCSS) and the Nomad Research Unit, organized a one-day workshop at the Centre of Social Anthropology of the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) / University of Mirail in Toulouse, France, on October 26, 2007. Two “sites of observation” were chosen by the speakers (France, Germany, England and India): medicinal materials (exchange network and commoditization) and medical knowledge (transmission, transformation and circulation).
For more information :
http://www.ifpindia.org/Scholarly-Medicine-in-the-Himalayas,511.html