Full Description
Mongolian Healing: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice Across Inner Asia explores the rich and diverse medicinal healing practices by Mongolian communities across Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Kalmykia.
This edited volume brings together scholars from various disciplines to examine knowledge systems and practises related to healing therapies, including nomadic healing, ritual practices including dom and shamanic healing, water as a source for healing in the landscape, and the art of Mongolian bonesetting. The second part of the book delves into the institutionalization of Mongolian medicine across Mongolia and Inner Mongolia, tracing its adaptation and its continuing presence in both urban and rural contexts, within contemporary healthcare systems, such as the hospital, laboratory and clinic. Through a Mongolian-oriented lens, this volume sheds light on the resilience and adaptability of Mongolian healing and medical traditions in the face of social, political, and cultural transformations across history. Combining historical, anthropological, and medical perspectives, it offers the first comprehensive account of how these practices have continued to thrive and adapt, bridging ancient knowledge with contemporary applications.
As a part of broader Asian medical traditions, this volume is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and anyone interested in the dynamic interplay of ancient wisdom and ongoing innovation across Inner Asia.
Contents
Introduction. Mongolian Medicine and Healing: the transfer of different modes of medical knowledge Part 1: Mongol Healing and Curative Practices 1. Dom Healing Practices 2. Spiritual Curative Practices (Dom): Translation of a Manuscript 3. Nomadic Healing: multispecies prevention and treatment 4. Healing Waters in Mongolia 5. Healing in Kalmykia, south-west Russia 6. From Shamanic Bonesetters to Doctors of Mongolian Medicine Part 2: Formalising and Institutionalising Mongolian Medicine 7. Institutional Development of Mongolian Medicine 8. Formal and Non-formal Medical Education in Inner Mongolia 9. Village Doctors as Part of the History of Mongolian Medicine 10. Exploring the Compounding Rules of Complex Mongolian Medicine Prescriptions 11. Medicinal Socialities: kinship and knowledge transmission between Mongolian veterinarians and herders Afterword
