CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Feher, Zsuzsa Monika |
|---|---|
| Title | A Tibetan Healing Culture in Hungary: Prananadi |
| Summary | This MA research paper seeks to analyze the adoption of a Tibetan alternative healing method known as Prananadi in Hungary. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with Prananadi practitioners. The project focuses on the relationships of three analytic units: 1. Organizational structure & dynamics, 2. Bodily practices, and 3. Knowledge production. The first analytical unit includes organizational structure, hierarchy, and also the characteristics of the internal relations between the people within Prananadi: practitioners, teachers and their assistants. Their relations to the people outside of the organization will be examined: their patients, and other people working within medicine; as well as its dynamic aspects, which include the global diffusion of ideas from the East. The second basic category is the bodily practices, also known as embodiment, which includes elements of phenomenology. The knowledge production constitutive element addresses the question of how knowledge is produced and spread within the organization; there are also other related aspects, like the migration of knowledge from Tibet to Hungary and its relation to secrecy, training and authority. My argument is that the way knowledge production, bodily practices and organizational structure and the dynamics of Prananadi in Hungary is produced and represented in relation to each other and to other medicines is unique. The resulting healing culture draws on a hermeneutic practice of medicine predicated on secret knowledge, and there are no other healing techniques or culture, which has similar combinations of these three elements. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu< Daniel, Naumescu, Vlad |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/feher_zsuzsanna.pdf |
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