Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture: The Embodied Discourses of Conflict in Modern Tibet Export

@article{citeulike:241238, abstract = {This article explores the cultural epidemiology of rlung ("loong") disorder among Tibetans living in the cities and towns of the modern Chinese state of Tibet. Rlung, glossed as air or wind, is the most important of the three humors of the classical Tibetan ethnomedical system. Considered by Tibetans to be contingent upon multiple social, emotional, and religious phenomena, rlung disorders are fertile ground for the development of etiological discourses that incorporate the social and political crises that are part of the rapidly changing Tibetan plateau. In this essay I locate rlung disorder in a confluence of Tibetan ethnomedical constructions of the mind-body-universe linkage, in which rlung stands as the chief symbolic mediator, with ethnic conflict, rapid economic development, and the localization of global debates over Tibetan suffering and human rights. [Tibet, ethnomedicine, politics, economic development]}, author = {Janes, Craig R.}, citeulike-article-id = {241238}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/maq.1999.13.4.391}, doi = {10.1525/maq.1999.13.4.391}, journal = {Medical Anthropology Quarterly}, keywords = {tibet}, number = {4}, pages = {391--412}, posted-at = {2005-07-01 12:04:31}, priority = {3}, title = {Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture: The Embodied Discourses of Conflict in Modern Tibet}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/maq.1999.13.4.391}, volume = {13}, year = {1999} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:241238 L3 - citeulike-article-id:241238 N2 - This article explores the cultural epidemiology of rlung ("loong") disorder among Tibetans living in the cities and towns of the modern Chinese state of Tibet. Rlung, glossed as air or wind, is the most important of the three humors of the classical Tibetan ethnomedical system. Considered by Tibetans to be contingent upon multiple social, emotional, and religious phenomena, rlung disorders are fertile ground for the development of etiological discourses that incorporate the social and political crises that are part of the rapidly changing Tibetan plateau. In this essay I locate rlung disorder in a confluence of Tibetan ethnomedical constructions of the mind-body-universe linkage, in which rlung stands as the chief symbolic mediator, with ethnic conflict, rapid economic development, and the localization of global debates over Tibetan suffering and human rights. [Tibet, ethnomedicine, politics, economic development] IS - 4 JF - Medical Anthropology Quarterly EP - 412 TI - Imagined Lives, Suffering, and the Work of Culture: The Embodied Discourses of Conflict in Modern Tibet VL - 13 SP - 391 KW - tibet AU - Janes, Craig PY - 1999/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/maq.1999.13.4.391 ER -