The Reproduction of Tibetan Culture Through Women's Health

通过女性健康再现西藏文化

• 批准号: 9727250
• 负责人: Vincanne Adams
• 金额: $ 1.43万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-03-15 至 1999-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9727250&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Reproduction; Tibetan; Culture; Through; Women

This project involves the research of a cultural anthropologist from Princeton University, studying how Tibetan women use traditional Tibetan medicine as a means of cultural revitalization under conditions of state-directed Sinicized modernization. Specifically, it explores the extent to which women associate use of Tibetan medicine for reproductive and gynecological disorders with efforts to ensure the survival of Tibetan culture in the face of Chinese hegemonic practices. The work will focus on six months of data collection in the women's ward of a health facility in Lhasa where the idioms used by women for discussing biological, social, political and cultural discontent are drawn from traditional Tibetan epistemologies concerning the body, the nature of suffering, and the relation between ethics, biology, and cultural identity. The investigator will interview patients and families about their diseases, treatments, and other factors they consider relevant to their conditions. Physicians as well as traditional healers will be interviewed and observed as they deal with patients. The project will provide data on this relatively unknown area of women's health in Tibet, will advance our understanding of the links between ethnic revitalization and ethnomedicine in the important area of the world.

该项目涉及普林斯顿大学的一位文化人类学家的研究，研究藏族妇女如何在国家主导的中国化现代化条件下利用传统藏医作为文化振兴的手段。 具体而言，它探讨了妇女在多大程度上将使用藏医治疗生殖和妇科疾病与努力确保西藏文化在中国霸权做法面前的生存联系起来。 这项工作将集中在拉萨一家卫生机构的妇女病房进行为期六个月的数据收集，其中妇女用于讨论生物，社会，政治和文化不满的成语来自西藏传统的认识论，涉及身体，痛苦的本质以及伦理，生物和文化认同之间的关系。研究者将与患者和家属面谈，了解他们的疾病、治疗和他们认为与病情相关的其他因素。 医生以及传统的治疗师将接受采访，并观察他们与病人打交道。该项目将提供有关西藏妇女健康这一相对未知领域的数据，将促进我们对世界重要领域民族振兴和民族医学之间联系的理解。