Calum Blaikie
Biographic Data
| ID | 98570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Calum Blaikie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Calum |
| FAMILY NAME | Blaikie |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIKIE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0791-2072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia, written by Tatiana Chudakova
Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam, written by Laurence Monnais
The transnational Sowa Rigpa industry in Asia: New perspectives on an emerging economy
This article advances the hypothesis that "traditional" Asian pharmaceutical industries are rapidly growing in size and prominence in contemporary Asia, and identifies a lack of empirical data on the phenomenon. Addressing this gap, the article provides a quantitative outline and analysis of the Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan, Mongolian and Himalayan medicine) pharmaceutical industry in China, India, Mongolia and Bhutan. Using original data gathered through…
Mainstreaming Marginality: Traditional Medicine and Primary Healthcare in Himalayan India
This article examines the “mainstreaming” of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) into primary healthcare in Ladakh, Himalayan India. It explores fields largely overlooked by existing studies of medical integration, such as the social dynamics of public health facilities, the effects of limited drug supplies, and changes in medicine production. Although Sowa Rigpa practitioners experience aspects of their integration as positive, it is also forcing appr…
Positioning Sowa Rigpa in India
The years leading up to the recognition of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) by the Government of India in 2010 saw unprecedented interaction between various branches of the tradition and the state apparatus. These interactions grew particularly intense during March 2008, when two conferences focusing on related issues took place. The first referred to 'Tibetan medicine' and was organised by Tibetan exile institutions, while the second spoke of 'Sowa…
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…
Wish-fulfilling jewel pills: Tibetan medicines from exclusivity to ubiquity
Despite the recent growth of social science literature concerning the traditional medicine industry in Asia, insights into the contemporary dynamics of so-called 'classical formulae' remain relatively scant, as do studies of small-scale, less capitally intensive and technologically advanced modes of production. This paper seeks to address these gaps by considering a single Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) formula known as Samphel Norbu, or 'wish-ful…
Knowledge and Skill in Motion: Layers of Tibetan Medical Education in India
Currents of Tradition in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacy
This article traces patterns of continuity and transformation shaping Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) pharmacy in contemporary Ladakh, Himalayan India. It examines interlinked changes in the way medicines are being formulated, manufactured, assessed, and positioned in relation to wider social, economic, and political processes. The focus is on two practitioners who share a great deal, including medical lineage, training, and ritual connection, but …
Critically Endangered? Medicinal Plant Cultivation and the Reconfiguration of Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh
Despite the increasing attention being paid to Himalayan medicinal plants in various realms over recent years, the effects of resource depletion, and of attempts to control it, on the medical traditions that depend directly upon these plants remain largely in shadow. This article seeks to illuminate this lacuna by examining the relationships developing between medicinal plant conservation and Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) in Ladakh, Himalayan Ind…
Currents of Tradition in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacy
This article traces patterns of continuity and transformation shaping Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) pharmacy in contemporary Ladakh, Himalayan India. It examines interlinked changes in the way medicines are being formulated, manufactured, assessed, and positioned in relation to wider social, economic, and political processes. The focus is on two practitioners who share a great deal, including medical lineage, training, and ritual connection, but …
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…
Knowledge and Skill in Motion: Layers of Tibetan Medical Education in India
Wish-fulfilling jewel pills: Tibetan medicines from exclusivity to ubiquity
Despite the recent growth of social science literature concerning the traditional medicine industry in Asia, insights into the contemporary dynamics of so-called 'classical formulae' remain relatively scant, as do studies of small-scale, less capitally intensive and technologically advanced modes of production. This paper seeks to address these gaps by considering a single Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) formula known as Samphel Norbu, or 'wish-ful…
The transnational Sowa Rigpa industry in Asia: New perspectives on an emerging economy
This article advances the hypothesis that "traditional" Asian pharmaceutical industries are rapidly growing in size and prominence in contemporary Asia, and identifies a lack of empirical data on the phenomenon. Addressing this gap, the article provides a quantitative outline and analysis of the Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan, Mongolian and Himalayan medicine) pharmaceutical industry in China, India, Mongolia and Bhutan. Using original data gathered through…
Positioning Sowa Rigpa in India
The years leading up to the recognition of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) by the Government of India in 2010 saw unprecedented interaction between various branches of the tradition and the state apparatus. These interactions grew particularly intense during March 2008, when two conferences focusing on related issues took place. The first referred to 'Tibetan medicine' and was organised by Tibetan exile institutions, while the second spoke of 'Sowa…
Critically Endangered? Medicinal Plant Cultivation and the Reconfiguration of Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh
Despite the increasing attention being paid to Himalayan medicinal plants in various realms over recent years, the effects of resource depletion, and of attempts to control it, on the medical traditions that depend directly upon these plants remain largely in shadow. This article seeks to illuminate this lacuna by examining the relationships developing between medicinal plant conservation and Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) in Ladakh, Himalayan Ind…
Currents of Tradition in Sowa Rigpa Pharmacy
This article traces patterns of continuity and transformation shaping Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) pharmacy in contemporary Ladakh, Himalayan India. It examines interlinked changes in the way medicines are being formulated, manufactured, assessed, and positioned in relation to wider social, economic, and political processes. The focus is on two practitioners who share a great deal, including medical lineage, training, and ritual connection, but …
Knowledge and Skill in Motion: Layers of Tibetan Medical Education in India
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…
Wish-fulfilling jewel pills: Tibetan medicines from exclusivity to ubiquity
Despite the recent growth of social science literature concerning the traditional medicine industry in Asia, insights into the contemporary dynamics of so-called 'classical formulae' remain relatively scant, as do studies of small-scale, less capitally intensive and technologically advanced modes of production. This paper seeks to address these gaps by considering a single Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) formula known as Samphel Norbu, or 'wish-ful…
Positioning Sowa Rigpa in India
The years leading up to the recognition of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) by the Government of India in 2010 saw unprecedented interaction between various branches of the tradition and the state apparatus. These interactions grew particularly intense during March 2008, when two conferences focusing on related issues took place. The first referred to 'Tibetan medicine' and was organised by Tibetan exile institutions, while the second spoke of 'Sowa…
Mainstreaming Marginality: Traditional Medicine and Primary Healthcare in Himalayan India
This article examines the “mainstreaming” of Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) into primary healthcare in Ladakh, Himalayan India. It explores fields largely overlooked by existing studies of medical integration, such as the social dynamics of public health facilities, the effects of limited drug supplies, and changes in medicine production. Although Sowa Rigpa practitioners experience aspects of their integration as positive, it is also forcing appr…
The transnational Sowa Rigpa industry in Asia: New perspectives on an emerging economy
This article advances the hypothesis that "traditional" Asian pharmaceutical industries are rapidly growing in size and prominence in contemporary Asia, and identifies a lack of empirical data on the phenomenon. Addressing this gap, the article provides a quantitative outline and analysis of the Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan, Mongolian and Himalayan medicine) pharmaceutical industry in China, India, Mongolia and Bhutan. Using original data gathered through…
Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam, written by Laurence Monnais
Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia, written by Tatiana Chudakova
Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Traditional medicine (5 works) · China (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works) · Asian studies (3 works)