ArgO-EMR emphasizes long-term fieldwork and local language competencies. It investigates the ways medical and religious knowledge and practice are embedded within their ecologies and histories. Eastern medicines and religions have family resemblances; while each is specific to the cultural context in which it is practised, they are often studied in isolation by separate research institutions and environments.
ArgO-EMR therefore aims to offer a meeting ground for researchers who already have experience with, or wish to engage in, the study of Eastern medicines and religions across geographical areas and theoretical perspectives.
It holds a fortnightly seminar, a fortnightly reading group, and an annual international workshop. For an English version of the prospectus, click here. Eastern medicines and religions have family resemblances and reveal cross-cultural continuities, yet quickly develop specificities to the locality of their practice. Argo-EMR is a coordinated anthropological effort to explore Eastern medicines and religions in popular rural, institutionalized urban and transnational settings.
We emphasize long-term fieldwork and linguistic competency. Argo-EMR promotes ethnographic research on Eastern medicines and religions in rural, institutionalised urban, and transnational settings. Argo-EMR facilitates senior and post-doctoral research, and intends to offer studentships and one-year fellowships. Since , deaf Tibetans in Lhasa have been formalising a broad variety of signs, gestures and other forms of communication into the Tibetan Sign Language TSL.
This project seeks to understand the methods, people and organisations involved in the emergence and ongoing development of TSL. Three educational methods: empowerment Tib. Both methods involve lineage transmission lines, either textually or spiritually.
