The Land Of Milk And Barley: Medicinal Plants, Staple Foods, And Discourses Of Subjectivity In Rgyal Thang

Glover, Denise M.

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“…However, much less attention has been paid to how the medicinal knowledge and practice of Tibetan lay people have fared during these turbulent developments. One study of lay people's knowledge of medicinal plant use close to the main city (Zhongdian or Shangrila) in Diqing prefecture showed that most people could mention only one or two medicinal plants (Glover 2007). In contrast to that study, our survey showed much greater medicinal plant knowledge, but also that there was large variation among people.…”

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“…However, this does not rule out knowledge loss or changes in previous generations. The above-mentioned study by Glover (2007) found that villagers regarded their own medicinal plant knowledge as the degraded remnants of a more extensive knowledge held by previous generations. However, her study did not show a relationship between age and medicinal knowledge either.…”

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“…Thus, the medicinal knowledge and practices of villagers may be far more extensive than indicated by our study. It has been shown, for example, that staple foods such as milk and barley play an important dual role as foods and medicines in the health care strategies of Tibetan villagers (Glover 2007). This suggests the importance of investigating the role of food as medicine (Etkin 2006) in Tibet.…”

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Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

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Tibetans in five villages in the Mount Khawa Karpo area of the Menri (Meili Xueshan in Chinese) range, Northwest Yunnan, People's Republic of China, were interviewed about their knowledge of a number of medicinal plants and their uses. There was large variation in people's knowledge with significant differences among the villages and between men and women. Most of the reported knowledge focused on a small number of commercial plants and their uses. In comparison with Tibetan doctors, villagers generally knew fewer applications and focused on general health remedies. Many people collected medicinal plants for their own use as well as for sale, but also obtained medicinal plant remedies from markets and Tibetan doctors, and often used traditional Tibetan healthcare in conjunction with biomedical treatment.

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“…WEPs and fungi provide resources and offer the potential for future investigation of new health and dietary products. Along with the potential for sustainable livelihood improvement in local communities, there is an increased demand for healthy and safe foods globally and there may be market potential for these resources both regionally and beyond (Glover 2007). Compared to conventionally cultivated food sources, WEPs and fungi have great value with respect to the way of growing and the nutritional significance.…”

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Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China

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2022

Journal of Ethnobiology

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The collection and consumption of wild edible plants (WEPs) and fungi is an important part of the foodways of many populations worldwide. Knowledge of WEPs and fungi is considered a significant component of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), and is greatly impacted by social, economic, political, and cultural contexts and changes. T his study showcases a naturalistic comparison between more traditional villages and villages that were part of a government program to promote walnut production. We document the ethno-species of WEPs and fungi and analyze the corresponding socio-economic implications in an ethnic Nuosu township in the northwest region of Yunnan Province, China. Semi-structured interviews, free lists, household surveys, and cultural consensus analysis were used for data collection and data analysis. We recorded 139 ethno-species of WEPs and fungi, and consensus analysis indicates a good fit of the cultural consensus model with respect to Nuosu people's knowledge on WEPs and fungi. Quantitative analysis shows gender does not have an effect on local knowledge of WEPs and fungi, and different types of villages and travel-time required to collect WEPs and fungi are not correlated with competence scores. However, the correlation between competence scores of WEPs and fungi with gender and travel time show moderate effect-sizes. Age plays an important role in knowledge of WEPs and fungi among Nuosu people in the study township, showing that the older the person, the higher their score. This article illustrates the plight and reality of traditional knowledge about WEPs and fungi of the Nuosu people, revealing a trend that traditional knowledge is gradually changing due to social, economic, and ecological changes.

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“…6 Bodeker et al 1997;Maffi 2001;Shankar and Majumdar 1997;Stepp et al 2002. 7 Boesi and Cardi 2006;Dawa and Moore 1999;Glover 2005Glover , 2007 groundbreaking 'WWF-UNESCO People and Plants programme' opened up new fields of interaction between amchi (am chi-Sowa Rigpa practitioners, as they are known in Nepal and Ladakh), scientists and conservationists. 8 This encounter led to the development of innovative systems of resource management and acted as a catalyst for the rise of new forms of social organisation and collective action amongst practitioners, whose influence has continued to grow well beyond the lifespan of the project itself.…”

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Critically Endangered? Medicinal Plant Cultivation and the Reconfiguration of Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh

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2009

Asian Med

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Despite the increasing attention being paid to Himalayan medicinal plants in various realms over recent years, the effects of resource depletion, and of attempts to control it, on the medical traditions that depend directly upon these plants remain largely in shadow. This article seeks to illuminate this lacuna by examining the relationships developing between medicinal plant conservation and Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine) in Ladakh, Himalayan India. I discuss four cultivation projects, their contributions to emergent patterns of medicine production and their positioning within the wider transformations shaping this medical tradition. I show that while some plant species have indeed become increasingly threatened in Ladakh, it is small-scale medicine production, and a particular form of Sowa Rigpa associated with it, that have become 'critically endangered', particularly in light of an elite-driven quest to secure central government recognition for the system. Medicinal plants are being cast in a variety of roles on this stage, expressing social, commercial and medical interests that converge and conflict with one another in different fields. I argue that while the projects in question largely feed into contemporary trends towards medical modernisation and the increasing concentration of pharmaceutical production, they also play a counterbalancing role by supporting small-scale production and practice. This multiplicity reflects the ambivalence being experienced by practitioners in a period of considerable flux, as well as calling into question the utility of linear models of medical change and binary conceptualisations of 'tradition' and 'modernity'. Himalayan plants and medical traditionsThe medicinal plants of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau have become the objects of increasing attention from many directions over recent decades. International donors and policy makers, government departments, NGOs and those involved in the burgeoning herbal industry have all initiated actions concerning these plants, while authors of diverse backgrounds and disciplines

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The Land Of Milk And Barley: Medicinal Plants, Staple Foods, And Discourses Of Subjectivity In Rgyal Thang

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Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

Nuosu Horticulturalists' Local Knowledge of Wild Edible Plants and Fungi and Socio-Economic Implications in Yunnan, Southwest China

Critically Endangered? Medicinal Plant Cultivation and the Reconfiguration of Sowa Rigpa in Ladakh

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