Theresia Hofer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theresia Hofer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theresia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hofer |
| SIGNATURE | HOFER T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Writing with Care: Ethnographies from the Margins of Tibet and the Himalayas
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Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004 Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitioners, or…
Chapter 4 the Medico-Cultural Revolution
Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: Governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China
The People's Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in these domains is analysed through the framework of the '…
Is Lhasa Tibetan Sign Language emerging, endangered, or both
This article offers the first overview of the recent emergence of Tibetan Sign Language (TibSL) in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. Drawing on short anthropological fieldwork, in 2007 and 2014, with people and organisations involved in the formalisation and promotion of TibSL, the author discusses her findings within the nine-fold UNESCO model for assessing linguistic vitality and endangerment. She follows the adaptatio…
Coproducing Efficacious Medicines: Collaborative Event Ethnography with Himalayan and Tibetan Sowa Rigpa Practitioners
This article emerges from a workshop titled "Producing Efficacious Medicine: Quality, Potency, Lineage, and Critically Endangered Knowledge," held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in December 2011. An experiment in collaborative event ethnography (CEE), this workshop brought together Tibetan medicine practitioners (amchi) from India, Nepal, and Tibetan regions of the People's Republic of China, with anthropologists who have been working with amchi for decade…
Women and Gender in Tibetan Medicine
The current issue of 'Asian Medicine' emerges from the presentations made and discussions held during the panel ‘Women and Gender in Medicine and Healing Across Asia’ at the Asian Medicine: Cultivating Traditions and the Challenges of Globalisation conference in Bhutan, September 2009 (organised by IASTAM, the International Association for Traditional Medicine in collaboration with the Institute for Traditional Medicine Services, Thimphu). The or…
Socio-Economic Dimensions of Tibetan Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China Part One
This article investigates some of the socio-economic dimensions of contemporary Tibetan healing practices in the rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China. It sheds light on the workings and the effects the commodification of the official Chinese health care system, which started in the late 1990s, have had on Tibetan medicine and how these are related to the concurrent re-introduction of the Co-operative Medical Services (CMS) sc…
Socio-Economic Dimensions of Tibetan Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China
This article investigates some of the socio-economic dimensions of contemporary Tibetan medical practices in the rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. The article is divided into two parts. Part One, printed in the last issue of the journal, deals with traditional medical practitioners and their medical practices within the governmental health care system in the TAR. It sheds light on the workings and the effects that the commo…
Coproducing Efficacious Medicines: Collaborative Event Ethnography with Himalayan and Tibetan Sowa Rigpa Practitioners
This article emerges from a workshop titled "Producing Efficacious Medicine: Quality, Potency, Lineage, and Critically Endangered Knowledge," held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in December 2011. An experiment in collaborative event ethnography (CEE), this workshop brought together Tibetan medicine practitioners (amchi) from India, Nepal, and Tibetan regions of the People's Republic of China, with anthropologists who have been working with amchi for decade…
Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: Governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China
The People's Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in these domains is analysed through the framework of the '…
Is Lhasa Tibetan Sign Language emerging, endangered, or both
This article offers the first overview of the recent emergence of Tibetan Sign Language (TibSL) in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. Drawing on short anthropological fieldwork, in 2007 and 2014, with people and organisations involved in the formalisation and promotion of TibSL, the author discusses her findings within the nine-fold UNESCO model for assessing linguistic vitality and endangerment. She follows the adaptatio…
Socio-Economic Dimensions of Tibetan Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China Part One
This article investigates some of the socio-economic dimensions of contemporary Tibetan healing practices in the rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in China. It sheds light on the workings and the effects the commodification of the official Chinese health care system, which started in the late 1990s, have had on Tibetan medicine and how these are related to the concurrent re-introduction of the Co-operative Medical Services (CMS) sc…
Socio-Economic Dimensions of Tibetan Medicine in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China
This article investigates some of the socio-economic dimensions of contemporary Tibetan medical practices in the rural areas of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. The article is divided into two parts. Part One, printed in the last issue of the journal, deals with traditional medical practitioners and their medical practices within the governmental health care system in the TAR. It sheds light on the workings and the effects that the commo…
Women and Gender in Tibetan Medicine
The current issue of 'Asian Medicine' emerges from the presentations made and discussions held during the panel ‘Women and Gender in Medicine and Healing Across Asia’ at the Asian Medicine: Cultivating Traditions and the Challenges of Globalisation conference in Bhutan, September 2009 (organised by IASTAM, the International Association for Traditional Medicine in collaboration with the Institute for Traditional Medicine Services, Thimphu). The or…
Coproducing Efficacious Medicines: Collaborative Event Ethnography with Himalayan and Tibetan Sowa Rigpa Practitioners
This article emerges from a workshop titled "Producing Efficacious Medicine: Quality, Potency, Lineage, and Critically Endangered Knowledge," held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in December 2011. An experiment in collaborative event ethnography (CEE), this workshop brought together Tibetan medicine practitioners (amchi) from India, Nepal, and Tibetan regions of the People's Republic of China, with anthropologists who have been working with amchi for decade…
Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: Governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China
The People's Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in these domains is analysed through the framework of the '…
Is Lhasa Tibetan Sign Language emerging, endangered, or both
This article offers the first overview of the recent emergence of Tibetan Sign Language (TibSL) in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), China. Drawing on short anthropological fieldwork, in 2007 and 2014, with people and organisations involved in the formalisation and promotion of TibSL, the author discusses her findings within the nine-fold UNESCO model for assessing linguistic vitality and endangerment. She follows the adaptatio…
Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004 Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitioners, or…
Chapter 4 the Medico-Cultural Revolution
Writing with Care: Ethnographies from the Margins of Tibet and the Himalayas
Note: To have Tibetan script correctly displayed, please download the PDF file and open it in a desktop application
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · China (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Traditional medicine (3 works)