von Gerke, Barbara: Crafting Potency - Atelier Tibet

by Gerke, Barbara: Crafting Potency

Sowa Rigpa: Artisanship Across the Himalayas
*Crafting Potency* investigates the intricate interplay of knowledge, practice, and materials through which potency is shaped in Sowa Rigpa (Tibetan medicine). Drawing on Tibetan medical literature and extensive fieldwork with practitioners (amchis) from Ladakh, Dharamsala, and Kathmandu, the authors explore how potency is understood and manipulated in the preparation of multi-ingredient medicines. Drawing inspiration from Tim Ingold’s ecologically attuned phenomenology and Pamela Smith’s concept of “artisanal epistemologies,” potency is presented as efficacy-in-becoming—a fluid capacity shaped and layered through skilled craftsmanship, ritual, and the environment—rather than a fixed property of stable substances. By highlighting the deep immersion of amchis in their social, ecological, technical, and spiritual lifeworlds—and by exploring what changes when knowledge is transmitted through institutional rather than lineage-based training—the book contributes nuanced, practice-based perspectives to the anthropology of craft and the history of science.
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