Description: The contributors to Healing at the Periphery examine Sowa Rigpa, or Tibetan medicine, and the central part practitioners of Tibetan healing known as amchis play in Indian Himalayan communities and the exile Tibetan community.
Review Quotes: "These wonderfully detailed ethnographic studies look at 'Tibetan Medicine' from the peripheries and the grass roots of Indian Himalayan regions. A diverse and populous amchi medicine is here revealed as plural, embedded in communities and in history, and much valued by sick and healthy people alike. This volume promises to completely recast and thoroughly pluralize Tibetan studies and Asian medical history."--Judith Farquhar, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"This volume is a valuable exercise in recording old stories and paving the way for new ones. Its impact is undeniable, as it provides insight into the transformation of the periphery into the center (regardless of whether one is at the center or the periphery)."--Chia-hui Lu, East Asian Science, Technology and Society "A crucial contribution to the medical anthropology/sociology of medicine. . . . The volume is well-articulated and meticulously written, offering in-depth case studies on Sowa Rigpa."--Manash Protim Saikia & Himanshu Nath, Contemporary South Asia