scholarly journals In search of trust and efficacy

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Fjeld ◽  
Nianggajia
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Public Health System ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Medical Pluralism ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Patient Role ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Shared Understandings

This article describes how Tibetan medicine, traditionally an ethnomedicine indigenous to Tibetan areas, travels across cultural boundaries in a multiethnic region, presenting empirical findings from Rebgong (Ch. Tongren) in Qinghai province, People’s Republic of China. Focusing on Muslim Hui and Han Chinese citizens, we describe how these patients smoothly engage with Tibetan medicine. This, we argue, is enabled by a strong sense of trust in distinguished Tibetan doctors, or ‘lineage doctors’, and their privately produced Tibetan medicines, and by shared understandings of the patient role. Contemporary medical pluralism in Rebgong invites us to revisit classic themes in medical anthropology as it brings the study of ethnomedicine into the context of a reconfigured instrumentalized public health system and ethnic relations, in which trust is a rare and treasured quality.

The Efficacy of Collaboration: Tibetan Medicine Across Countries and Conversations

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 152-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sienna Craig
Keyword(s):  
International Association ◽  
The United States ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Traditional Medicines ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Tibet Autonomous Region ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Hands On Learning ◽  
Sowa Rigpa

First delivered as a plenary lecture at the ictam viii congress in September 2013 in South Korea, this paper discusses two interdisciplinary and collaborative workshops focusing on Tibetan medicine (also known as Sowa Rigpa) in contemporary contexts. The first event, which took place in December 2011, brought together nearly 40 practitioners of Sowa Rigpa from the greater Himalaya and Tibetan regions of the People’s Republic of China (prc), along with four anthropologists, for intensive, interactive discussions on pharmacology by making medicines together. The second event, which took place in October 2012 in Xining, Qinghai Province, prc, involved practitioners, educators, and researchers from the Arura Group, one of the leading Tibetan medicine institutions in the prc, with researchers from the United States, Europe, and tar (Tibet Autonomous Region) for in-depth discussions about integrative clinical research and the place of the humanities and social sciences in the study of traditional medicines. Both events were supported, directly or indirectly, by the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (iastam), and abided in spirit with the mission of this organisation, namely, to bring scholars and practitioners of Asian medicine together for mutual exchange. While the Kathmandu event emphasised hands-on learning and the co-production of both knowledge and things, the Xining workshop provided Tibetan medical colleagues in the prc with the opportunity to engage with broad discussions, at once methodological and epistemological, about the meaning, purpose, and aims of research on traditional medicines today.

Contingent Efficacies in Buryat Tibetan Medicine

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 249-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana Chudakova
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Medical Pluralism ◽  
Therapeutic Action ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
Clinical Protocols ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Multiple Regimes

Focusing on sites of encounter between post-socialist biomedicine and Tibetan medicine in Eastern Siberia, this article explores overlapping ideologies of efficacy at work. In the absence of a single framework for determining its potencies, Tibetan medicine is caught between multiple regimes of legitimacy necessitated by scientific research, clinical protocols, and state regulatory frameworks. Through an exploration of three ethnographic case studies, this article tracks how those working with Tibetan medicine highlight instead the conditional nature of its therapeutic action. By adopting the frame ofcontingent efficacies, the article explores how practitioners of Tibetan medicine in Russia conceive of the medicines and techniques they deploy as always already situated extensions of specific social relations, political formations, forms of practice, and epistemological commitments. By pointing to the failures at commensuration with different regimes of abstraction these accounts offer a lens into the cultural politics of medical pluralism in Inner Asia.

scholarly journals Ten years of ranavirus research (2010–2019): an analysis of global research trends

FACETS ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Wytamma Wirth ◽  
David Lesbarrères ◽  
Ellen Ariel
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Output ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Trends ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Dna Viruses ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Keyword Analysis ◽  
Cultural Boundaries

Ranaviruses are large nucleocytoplasmic DNA viruses that infect ectothermic vertebrates. Here we report the results of a scientometric analysis of the field of ranavirology for the last 10 years. Using bibliometric tools we analyse trends, identify top publications and journals, and visualise the ranavirus collaboration landscape. The Web of Science core collection contains 545 ranavirus-related publications from 2010 to 2019, with more publications produced every year and a total of 6830 citations. Research output is primarily driven by the United States and People’s Republic of China, who together account for more than 60% of ranavirus publications. We also observed a positive correlation between the average number of co-authors on ranavirus publications and the year of publication, indicating that overall collaboration is increasing. A keyword analysis of ranavirus publications from 2010 to 2019 reveals several areas of research interest including; ecology, immunology, virology/molecular biology, genetics, ichthyology, and herpetology. While ranavirus research is conducted globally, relatively few publications have co-authors from both European and Asian countries, possibly because closer countries (geographical distance) are more likely to share co-authors. To this end, efforts should be made to foster collaborations across geopolitical and cultural boundaries, especially between countries with shared research interests as ultimately, understanding global pathogens, like ranaviruses, will require global collaboration.

scholarly journals A Comparative Approach To International Marketing Negotiations

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma T. Mintu ◽  
Roger J. Calantone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Marketing Plan ◽  
Business Negotiation ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Business Negotiations

Despite the increasing number of marketing transactions that transcend both the national and cultural boundaries, comparative studies on the influence of culture on business negotiations have been lacking. This paper presents intra-cultural and inter-cultural perspectives on business negotiation behaviors of Japan, Peoples Republic of China, Canada, and the United States. The authors identify culturally bound factors that can affect the negotiation activity and thereby aid the manager in the adaptation and/or adjustment of the marketing plan to suit the foreign environment.

Powerful Deity or National Geopark?: the Pilgrimage to A-myes-rma-chen in 2014/2015, Transformations of Modernisation and State Secularism, and Environmental Change

Inner Asia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-282
Author(s):  
Anna Sehnalova
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Present Form ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Great Development

Abstract The paper focuses on one of the most sacred mountains of Tibet, A-myes-rma-chen, located in east Tibet (contemporary mGo-log Prefecture, Qinghai Province, People’s Republic of China). It deals mainly with two topics: the ongoing vivid revitalisation of the cult of the mountain and its deity since the Cultural Revolution, and how this interacts with the current changes at the site due to state-planned modernisation and development within the ‘Great Development of the West’ (Xibu da kaifa) strategy extensively implemented since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Particular attention is paid to the recent great circumambulation pilgrimage to A-myes-rma-chen, performed once every 12 years in a Horse Year, which took place in 2014/15, in the Horse Year 2143 of the Tibetan calendar. The article shows the present form of the pilgrimage, its reflection of and accustomisation to these changes, and the resulting quick transformation of the institution of pilgrimage. Pilgrims’ and local people’s understandings and views, alterations and modifications of their behaviour and pilgrimage practice, as well as actual reactions, are discussed. The article argues that the site of A-myes-rma-chen is currently being reinterpreted by the state in a secularised, commodifying and territorialising discourse in order to incorporate the area more closely, both politically and culturally. A-myes-rma-chen thus represents a space contested by different cultural and interest groups.

Herbs and Traders in Transit: Border Regimes and the Contemporary Trans-Himalayan Trade in Tibetan Medicinal Plants

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-339 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Saxer
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Tibetan Medicine ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Border Trade ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
In Transit ◽  
Business Trip

This article discusses the contemporary cross-border trade in medicinal plants between Nepal and Tibet. As Tibetan pharmacy extensively relies on raw materials not native to Tibet, long-distance trade in medicinal materials is not a new phenomenon. However, with the recent creation of a Tibetan medicine industry in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the increasing demand for herbs from India and Nepal, the contemporary herb trade is facing new challenges. Surging trade volumes, notions of patient safety, growing ecological concerns, and the current political situation in Tibet have led to increased efforts at rendering legible and controlling the transit of traders and herbs across the border. The ethnographic account of a Tibetan plant trader’s business trip to Nepal serves as a starting point for a discussion of these efforts and the traders’ tactical manoeuvres to deal with them. The notion of ‘border regimes’ is introduced to analyse the regulations, their implementation and side-effects that condition the current situation.

Assessment of Echinococcus granulosus polymorphism in Qinghai Province, People’s Republic of China

2008 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
pp. 1201-1206 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Ma ◽  
S. Maillard ◽  
H. L. Zhao ◽  
X. Huang ◽  
H. Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Echinococcus Granulosus ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Qinghai Province ◽  
Republic Of China
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