2 Ergebnisse für: vincanne
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Tigers of the Snow and Other Virtual Sherpas: An Ethnography of Himalayan ... - Vincanne Adams - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=gYkuPu9Yr6wC
Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how…
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Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=SwX7ifWyI_QC&pg=PA261&lpg=PA261&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false
There is a growing interest in studies that document the relationship between science and medicine - as ideas, practices, technologies and outcomes - across cultural, national, geographic terrain. Tibetan medicine is not only known as a scholarly medical…