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This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine
in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and
treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She
demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with
the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese
medical choices are m
This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine
in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and
treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She
demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with
the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese
medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in
relation to different forms of knowledge. "Knowing Practice" will
be of value not only to anthropologists interested in medical
practice but also to historians and sociologists interested in the
social life of technical expertise and traditional teachings.
In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all
of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort,
synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort to
create local health care systems comparable to the nationally
supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering
Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge
development while sympathetically introducing the myriad
therapeutic traditions of southern China. Over a period of six
years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority
nationality groups in China's southern mountains, observing how
medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified.
Gathering Medicines shares their intimate view of how people
understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This
ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China is a
testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that
theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between
formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.
Over the past several decades, scholars in both the social sciences
and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body
proper": a singular, discrete biological organism with an
individual psyche. They have begun to perceive embodiment as
dynamic rather than static, as experiences that vary over time and
across the world as they are shaped by discourses, institutions,
practices, technologies, and ideologies. What has emerged is a
multiplicity of bodies, inviting a great many disciplinary points
of view and modes of interpretation. The forty-seven readings
presented in this volume range from classic works of social theory,
history, and ethnography to more recent investigations into
historical and contemporary modes of embodiment.Beyond the Body
Proper includes nine sections conceptually organized around themes
such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. Each section is
preceded by interpretive commentary by the volume's editors. Within
the collection are articles and book excerpts focused on bodies
using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and
eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as
pieces on medical classifications, spirit possession, the
commodification of body parts, in vitro fertilization, and an
artist/anatomist's "plastination" of cadavers for display.
Materialist, phenomenological, and feminist perspectives on
embodiment appear along with writings on interpretations of pain
and the changing meanings of sexual intercourse. Essays on these
topics and many others challenge Eurocentric assumptions about the
body as they speak to each other and to the most influential
contemporary trends in the human sciences. With selections by:
Henry Abelove, Walter Benjamin, Janice Boddy, John Boswell, Judith
Butler, Caroline Walker Bynum, Stuart Cosgrove, Michel de Certeau,
Gilles Deleuze, Alice Domurat Dreger, Barbara Duden, Friedrich
Engels, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Judith Farquhar, Marcel Granet,
Felix Guattari, Ian Hacking, Robert Hertz, Patricia Leyland
Kaufert, Arthur Kleinman, Shigehisa Kuriyama, Jean Langford, Bruno
Latour, Margaret Lock, Emily Martin, Karl Marx, Marcel Mauss,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Nancy K. Miller, Lisa Jean Moore, John D.
O'Neil, Aihwa Ong, Mariella Pandolfi, Susan Pedersen, Gregory M.
Pflugfelder, Rayna Rapp, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Kristofer Schipper,
Matthew Schmidt, Peter Stallybrass, Michael Taussig, Charis
Thompson, E.P. Thompson, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Victor Turner,
Terence Turner, Jose van Dijck, Keith Wailoo, Brad Weiss, Allon
White
In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all
of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort,
synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort to
create local health care systems comparable to the nationally
supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering
Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge
development while sympathetically introducing the myriad
therapeutic traditions of southern China. Over a period of six
years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority
nationality groups in China's southern mountains, observing how
medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified.
Gathering Medicines shares their intimate view of how people
understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This
ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China is a
testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that
theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between
formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.
Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture
in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical
character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural
terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism,
and observations of clinics and urban daily life in
Beijing--"Appetites" challenges the assumption that the mundane
enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar
analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodied existence to show
how contemporary appetites are grounded in history.
From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the
late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine
to modernity's private sexual passions, this book argues that
embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in
public reflections about personal and national life. As much at
home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life
in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and
literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a
materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform
periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in
collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions.
Judith Farquhar's innovative study of medicine and popular culture
in modern China reveals the thoroughly political and historical
character of pleasure. Ranging over a variety of cultural
terrains--fiction, medical texts, film and television, journalism,
and observations of clinics and urban daily life in
Beijing--"Appetites" challenges the assumption that the mundane
enjoyments of bodily life are natural and unvarying. Farquhar
analyzes modern Chinese reflections on embodied existence to show
how contemporary appetites are grounded in history.
From eating well in improving economic times to memories of the
late 1950s famine, from the flavors of traditional Chinese medicine
to modernity's private sexual passions, this book argues that
embodiment in all its forms must be invented and sustained in
public reflections about personal and national life. As much at
home in science studies and social theory as in the details of life
in Beijing, this account uses anthropology, cultural studies, and
literary criticism to read contemporary Chinese life in a
materialist and reflexive mode. For both Maoist and market reform
periods, this is a story of high culture in appetites, desire in
collective life, and politics in the body and its dispositions.
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