The Reproduction of Tibetan Culture Through Women's Health

这个项目涉及普林斯顿大学的一位文化人类学家的研究，研究在国家指导的中国化现代化条件下，藏族妇女如何利用藏医药作为文化振兴的手段。具体地说，它探讨了女性在多大程度上将使用藏药治疗生殖和妇科疾病与在面对中国霸权做法时确保西藏文化的生存联系在一起。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，在那里，妇女讨论生物、社会、政治和文化不满的成语来自藏族传统的关于身体、痛苦的性质以及伦理、生物和文化认同之间的关系的认识论。调查员将就他们的疾病、治疗和他们认为与他们的病情相关的其他因素采访患者和家属。医生和传统治疗师将在与病人打交道时接受采访和观察。该项目将提供西藏这一相对鲜为人知的妇女健康领域的数据，将增进我们对民族振兴与世界重要地区民族医药之间联系的了解。

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.