1st Edition
Mongolian Healing Knowledge, Transmission and Practice Across Inner Asia
Acknowledgements vii
Terminology and Spelling ix
List of Contributors xi
List of Figures xiii
List of Maps xv
List of Tables xvi
Introduction: Mongolian Healing and Medicine: The Transfer of Different Modes of Medicinal Knowledge 1
LI NARANGOA, NATASHA FIJN AND BENEDIKTE V. LINDSKOG
PART I
Mongol Healing and Curative Practices 27
1 Dom Healing Practices 29
BOLD SHARAV
2 Spiritual Curative Practices (Dom): Translation of a Manuscript 43
JONATHAN RATCLIFFE, NATASHA FIJN AND LI NARANGOA
3 Nomadic Healing: Multispecies Prevention and Treatment 56
NATASHA FIJN
4 Healing Waters in Mongolia 76
BENEDIKTE V. LINDSKOG
5 Healing in Kalmykia, South-West Russia 89
BAASANJAV TERBISH
6 From Shamanic Bonesetters to Doctors of Mongolian Medicine 105
LI NARANGOA AND LI ALTANJULA
PART II
Formalising and Institutionalising Mongolian Medicine 133
7 Institutional Development of Mongolian Medicine 135
LI NARANGOA
8 Formal and Non-formal Medical Education in Inner Mongolia 163
LI NARANGOA
9 Village Doctors as Part of the History of Mongolian Medicine 188
SAIJIRAHU BUYANCHUGLA
10 Compounding Rules of Complex Mongolian Medicine Prescriptions 208
MINGHAI FU, SHUYIN BAO, XIAOPING JI, HONGZHEN YU AND WULIJI AO
11 Medicinal Socialities: Kinship and Knowledge Transmission Between Mongolian Veterinarians and Herders 227
NATASHA FIJN
Afterword 248
Geoffrey Samuel
Bibliography 262
Index 284
Biography
Li Narangoa is a Professor in Northeast Asian history and culture and the founding Director of the Mongolia Institute at the Australian National University.
Natasha Fijn is an Associate Professor and Director of the Mongolia Institute at the Australian National University.
Benedikte V. Lindskog is an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at Oslo Metropolitan University.
