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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Barbara GerkePublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 27 Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.810kg ISBN: 9789004217034ISBN 10: 9004217037 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 23 December 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews'Gerke offers the first comprehensive account and analysis of Tibetans' contemporary ideas and practices related to multiple 'lifeforces' and the 'life-span'. In so doing she makes a noteworthy contribution to the study of Tibetans in Indian exile, outside of the well-documented Dharamsala-based communities. However, this work stands out for another reason: the author offers an innovative analytical approach, 'practices of temporalisation,' through which to consider the disparate, yet highly interconnected, ideas regarding long life that are held by medical, astrological, divinatory, and ritual experts and lay Tibetans. (...) This book will be a fascinating and inspiring reading for the specialized scholarly audiences in anthropology of the HImalayas, (Tibetan) Buddhism, and Asian medicines.' Theresia Hofer, University of Oslo, Himalaya, XXXII (2012) 'Gerke offers the first comprehensive account and analysis of Tibetans' contemporary ideas and practices related to multiple 'lifeforces' and the 'life-span'. In so doing she makes a noteworthy contribution to the study of Tibetans in Indian exile, outside of the well-documented Dharamsala-based communities. However, this work stands out for another reason: the author offers an innovative analytical approach, 'practices of temporalisation,' through which to consider the disparate, yet highly interconnected, ideas regarding long life that are held by medical, astrological, divinatory, and ritual experts and lay Tibetans. (...) This book will be a fascinating and inspiring reading for the specialized scholarly audiences in anthropology of the HImalayas, (Tibetan) Buddhism, and Asian medicines.' Theresia Hofer, University of Oslo, Himalaya, XXXII (2012) Author InformationBarbara Gerke, D.Phil. (2008) in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, is the Principal Investigator of a three-year DFG funded research project at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Her research focuses on the anthropology of Tibetan Medicine, longevity, toxicity, and methods of purification. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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