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| Suffering the Winds of Lhasa: Politicized Bodies, Human Rights, Cultural Difference, and Humanism in Tibet | ||
| 作者 | Adams, Vincanne (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
| 卷期 | v.12 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 1998.03 |
| 頁次 | 74 - 102 |
| 出版者 | Wiley |
| 出版者網址 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ |
| 出版地 | New Jersey, US [紐澤西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Princeton University, USA. |
| 關鍵詞 | Traditional Tibetan Medicine; Human Rights; Epistemology; Bodily Suffering |
| 摘要 | Tibetan refugees and Western activists note that if universal human rights standards were enforced in China, Tibetans would suffer less and come closer to political independence. This article explores potential problems of universalism and individualism in human rights discourse by examining understandings of the body and suffering among Lhasa Tibetan women. Data are taken from accounts of political prisoners and women patients at Lhasa's traditional Tibetan medical hospital. The data suggest a collective subjectivity, based on ideas about karma and congruencies of body, mind, and society that contrast with those found in international human rights discourse. Tibetans are forced to adopt universalist and individualist positions to make their claims for human rights heard while ironically articulating ideas about suffering that would contest such universalist positions. The article proposes a need for alternative conceptualizations of human rights taken from Tibetan epistemologies of suffering, and illustrates the utility of medical anthropological inquiries about embodiment and subjectivity for addressing larger political debates about human rights. |
| 目次 | Liberal Humanism 75 Human Rights Discourse 76 Body Politics 80 Embodied Suffering: Tibet 83 Tibetan Subjectivities, Karma, and Epistemology 88 Collective Subjectivity and Human Rights Politics 93 NOTES 95 REFERENCES CITED 99 |
| ISSN | 07455194 (P); 15481387 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1525/maq.1998.12.1.74 |
| 點閱次數 | 171 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.11.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.11.23 |
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