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(0)Theresia Hofer
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004Only 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,...
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
2015 Best Art Book Accolade, ICAS Book Prize in the Humanities CategoryBodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of the triangular relationship among the Tibetan art and science of healing (Sowa Rigpa), Buddhism, and arts and crafts. This book is dedicated to the history, theory, and practice of Tibetan medicine, a unique and complex system of understanding body and mind, treating illness,...
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
This book focuses on how sign language ideologies influence, manifest in, and are challenged by communicative practices. Sign languages are minority languages using the visual-gestural and tactile modalities, whose affordances are very different from those of spoken languages using the auditory-oral modality.