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Buddhist medicine and economies of attention in postsocialist Siberia

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ID2260944
AuthorsTatiana Chudakova (0009-0007-0375-4990, Department of Anthropology; Tufts University; 302 Eaton Hall 5 The Green Medford MA 02155, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume44
Issue2
Pages341-354
Publication date2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/amet.12483
OpenAlexW2611665453
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited25

Buddhist medicine (sowa rigpa) in Siberia frames the natural world as overflowing with therapeutic potencies: "There is nothing in the world that isn't a medicine," goes a common refrain. An exploration of sowa rigpa practitioners' committed relations with the plants they make into medicines challenges human-centric notions of efficacy in anthropological discussions of healing. Their work of making things medicinal-or pharmacopoiesis-centers on plants' vital materialities and requires attention to the entanglements among vegetal and human communities and bodies. Potency is thus not the fixed property of substances in a closed therapeutic encounter but the result of a socially and ecologically distributed practice of guided transformations, a practice that is managed through the attentive labor of multiple actors, human and otherwise. In Siberia, pharmacopoiesis makes explicit the layered relations among postsocialist deindustrialization, Buddhist cosmologies, ailing human bodies, and botanical life. [plants, environment, medicine, postsocialism, Buddhism, Buryatia, Russia] Тибетская медицина (Сова Ригпа) в Сибири представляет окружающий мир, как обильный источник терапевтических свойств: «в мире нет ничего, что не могло бы быть лекарством,» гласит распространённая цитата из коренного учения по тибетской медицине. Исследование отношений экспертов в области тибетской медицины к растениям, которые они используют для составления лекарств помогает переосмыслить антропоцентрический подход к вопросам лечения. Труд, требующийся для создания «лекарственности»-описанный здесь как «фармакопоэзис»-концентрируется на витальной материальности растений, и освещает взаимосвязь человеческих и ботанических сообществ и организмов. В данном контексте, эффективность лекарства не является фиксированным атрибутом веществ в определенных терапевтических ситуациях, а экологически и социально распределенной практикой направляемых изменений, которые контролируется разными социальными акторами. В Сибири, фармакопоэзис делает очевидным сложное пересечение постсоциалистических процессов, Буддистского осмысления мира, переживания болезней, и жизнедеятельности растений. [растения, экология, медицина, постсоциализм, Буддизм, Бурятия, Россия

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