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Sowa Rigpa Humanitarianism: Local Logics of Care Within a Global Politics of Compassion |
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Author |
Craig, Sienna R. (著)
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Gerke, Barbara (著)
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Sheldon, Victoria (著)
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Source |
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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Volume | v.34 n.2 |
Date | 2020.06 |
Pages | 174 - 191 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Publisher Url |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
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Location | New Jersey, US [紐澤西州, 美國] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | 1. Sienna R. Craig, Dartmouth College, USA.
2. Barbara Gerke, University of Vienna, Austria.
3. Victoria Sheldon, University of Toronto, Canada. |
Keyword | humanitarianism; emergent care; medical camps; Sowa Rigpa; Buddhism |
Abstract | This article examines the circulation of humanitarian ideas, materials, and actions in a non-biomedical and non-Judeo–Christian context: Sowa Rigpa or Tibetan medical camps in India and Nepal. Through these camps, practitioners and patients alike often overtly articulate Sowa Rigpa medicine as part of a broader humanitarian “good” motivated by a Buddhist-inflected ethics of compassion and a moral economy of care, diverging from mainstream public health and conventional humanitarian projects. Three ethnographic case studies demonstrate how micro-political interactions at camps engage with ethical and religious imaginaries. We show how the ordinary ethics of Sowa Rigpa humanitarianism gain distinct political meaning in contrast to non-Tibetan forms of aid, reconfiguring the relationship between Buddhism, essential medicines, moral economies, and politics. While Sowa Rigpa as a medical system operates transnationally, these camps are organized around local logics of emergent care, employing narratives of “charity” and Buddhist compassion when addressing health needs. |
Table of contents | Introduction 174 Case Study 1: Medical Camps as an Algebra of Compassion 177 Case Study 2: Medical Camps as a Politics of Religion in Exile 180 Case Study 3: Medical Camps as Slow Humanitarianism at the Margins 183 Between “Local Moral Worlds” and a Global “Politics of Compassion” 187 Conclusion 188 Notes 189 References Cited 190 |
ISSN | 07455194 (P); 15481387 (E) |
DOI | 10.1111/maq.12561 |
Hits | 38 |
Created date | 2023.11.22 |
Modified date | 2023.11.22 |
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