India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's
history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of
Tibetan medicine, or amchi, 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, Healing at the
Periphery 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.
Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig,
Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guerin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart
Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordie
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