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Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet |
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Adams, Vincanne (著)
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly
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| Volume | v.12 n.1 |
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| Date | 1998.03 |
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| Pages | 74 - 102 |
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| Publisher | Wiley |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/
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| Location | New Jersey, US [紐澤西州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: Princeton University, USA. |
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| Keyword | Traditional Tibetan Medicine; Human Rights; Epistemology; Bodily Suffering |
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| Abstract | Tibetan refugees and Western activists note that if universal human rights standards were enforced in China, Tibetans would suffer less and come closer to political independence. This article explores potential problems of universalism and individualism in human rights discourse by examining understandings of the body and suffering among Lhasa Tibetan women. Data are taken from accounts of political prisoners and women patients at Lhasa's traditional Tibetan medical hospital. The data suggest a collective subjectivity, based on ideas about karma and congruencies of body, mind, and society that contrast with those found in international human rights discourse. Tibetans are forced to adopt universalist and individualist positions to make their claims for human rights heard while ironically articulating ideas about suffering that would contest such universalist positions. The article proposes a need for alternative conceptualizations of human rights taken from Tibetan epistemologies of suffering, and illustrates the utility of medical anthropological inquiries about embodiment and subjectivity for addressing larger political debates about human rights. |
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| Table of contents | Liberal Humanism 75
Human Rights Discourse 76
Body Politics 80
Embodied Suffering: Tibet 83
Tibetan Subjectivities, Karma, and Epistemology 88
Collective Subjectivity and Human Rights Politics 93
NOTES 95
REFERENCES CITED 99 |
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| ISSN | 07455194 (P); 15481387 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1998.12.1.74 |
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| Hits | 42 |
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| Created date | 2023.11.23 |
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| Modified date | 2023.11.23 |
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