Staff – details
Jan Van der Valk, M.Sc. M.Sc. PhD
Gerke, B. (Author), Van der Valk, J. (Author), & McGrath, W. A. (Author). (2023). Thinking about Contagion and Epidemic Disease in Tibetan and Himalayan Medical Contexts: Introducing the “Pandemic Narrative” Research Project. Web publication
Gerke, B. (Author), & Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2022). Potent Substances project expo: Sowa Rigpa pandemic responses. Web publication
Gerke, B. (Author), & Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2022). Working with calcite: Potency as process. Web publication
Gerke, B. (Author), & Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2022). Tibetan Materialities workshop reflections: University of Copenhagen, 12-13 May 2022. Web publication
Van der Valk, J. (2022). "Sourcery": Losing Track of Tibetan Medicinal Plants between Commerce and Conservation in Northern India. In S. Kloos, & C. Blaikie (Eds.), Asian Medical Industries: Contemporary Perspectives on Traditional Pharmaceuticals (pp. 227-552). Routledge. Needham Research Institute Series https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003218074-12
Craig, S. R. (Author), Gerke, B. (Author), & Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2020). Asian Medicines, COVID-19 and the Politics of Science: An Unpublished Letter to the Editor of Nature. Web publication
Arya, P. Y., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). A Conversation on the Causes of Covid-19 with a Senior Tibetan Doctor Living in Lockdown in Milan. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-conversation-on-the-causes-of-covid-19-with-a-senior-tibetan-doctor-living-in-lockdown-in-milan
Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Asian Medicines and Covid-19: An Introduction. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/asian-medicines-and-covid-19-an-introduction
Craig, S. R., Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2020). Responding to an Unfolding Pandemic: Asian Medicines and Covid-19. Fieldsights. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/responding-to-an-unfolding-pandemic-asian-medicines-and-covid-19
Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2020). Making rejuvenating medicinal butter in the Swiss Alps with Dr. Pasang Yonten Arya. Web publication
Van der Valk, J. (2020). Dataset of illness classi fications in Sowa Rigpa: Compilations from the Oral Instructions Treatise of the Tibetan medical classic (Rgyud bzhi). Data in Brief, 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105321
Van der Valk, J. (Author). (2020). Sowa Rigpa Clinics in Boudha, Kathmandu, Nepal. Web publication
Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (Eds.) (2019). Materiality, Efficacy, and the Politics of Potent Substances across Asia. (1 ed.) Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies.
Van der Valk, J., & Schwabl, H. (2019). Challenging the Biomedical Notion of ‘Active Substance’: The Botanical Plasticity of Tibetan Medical Formulas . Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 208-218. [18]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/18
Van der Valk, J. (2019). Garuda 5 (khyung lnga): Ecologies of Potency and the Poison-Medicine Spectrum of Sowa Rigpa’s Renowned ‘Black Aconite’ Formula. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 111-128. [14]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/14
Gerke, B., & Van der Valk, J. (2019). Introduction: Approaching Potent Substances in Medicine and Ritual across Asia. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 69-73.
Van der Valk, J. (2019). Medicine and Memory in Tibet: Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform. Theresia Hofer, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018, 286 pp. Medical Anthropology Quarterly: international journal for the cultural and social analysis of health, 33(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/maq.12480
Gerke, B., Van der Valk, J., & Triplett, K. (2019). Potent Substances in a Thirteenth Century Japanese Scroll Painting. Himalaya: The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 39(1), 4-8. [5]. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/himalaya/vol39/iss1/5
Potent Substances in Sowa Rigpa and Buddhist Rituals
Barbara Gerke (Speaker), Jan Van der Valk (Speaker), Tawni Lynn Tidwell (Speaker) & Calum Blaikie (Speaker)
4 Nov 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tibetan Medicine and Covid-19 in the Anthropocene: Diagnosing the Spiritual Revenge of Nature
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
8 Sep 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Beyond the Ethnographic Case Study: A Student-Practitioner-Anthropologist Learning (about) the Craft of Tibetan Medicinal Butter Preparation
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
12 Jul 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Emerging Sowa Rigpa/Environment Interface in the Anthropocene: Reflections on Pandemic Response-Ability
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
6 Jul 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Modern Tibetan medical education and the widening doctor-pharmacist divide in Nepal: What’s the problem?
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
14 Jan 2020
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
The Link between Tibetan Medicine and Buddhism: A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
13 Nov 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
How do Medicines Become Potent in Sowa Rigpa? Latour’s ‘Network’ versus Ingold’s ‘Meshwork’: an Applied Comparison of Theoretical Frameworks
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
11 Jul 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Tibetan Medicine, Vitality and Rejuvenation
Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
11 Apr 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public
"Potency-in-Becoming": Artisanship among Amchi Practitioners Making Sowa Rigpa Medicines in Ladakh
Barbara Gerke (Speaker) & Jan Van der Valk (Speaker)
31 Jan 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
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1090 Wien
Room: 2B-O1-12