Other–Worldly – Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames
Autor Mei Zhanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822343844
ISBN-10: 0822343843
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 8 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 237 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0822343843
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 8 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 237 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States
Cuprins
Acknowledgments; Preface ; Introduction; I. Entanglements; 1. Get on Track with the World; 2. Misplaced Hearts; II. Negotiations; 3. Does It Take a Miracle?; 4. Translating Knowledges; III. Dislocations; 5. Engendering Families and Knowledges, Sideways; 6. Discrepant Distances; EpilogueNotes; References; Index
Recenzii
Other-Worldly is brilliant. It is a strong intervention into fields including China studies, medical anthropology, science studies, and studies of globalization. At the forefront of social theory, this theoretically dazzling ethnography argues that worlding is an ongoing process of encounters and displacements and that translocality is a defining feature of traditional Chinese medicine rather than ancillary to it, while it transposes questions of authenticity onto historically specific imaginations of the world and Chinese medicines place in it.Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public CultureOther-Worldly is accomplished, theoretically rich, and a pleasure to read. The inclusion of both San Francisco and Shanghai, the use of anthropological and feminist studies of science, and the focus on Chinese medicine in action are particularly significant. Moreover, Mei Zhan achieves a marvelous balance between astute observation, her own experience, and the relational dimensions that emerge out of that experience.Linda L. Barnes, author of Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848Through a series of illuminating encounters, Mei Zhans Other-Worldly makes a compelling case for why Chinese medicine as we know it today cannot be understood outside of a transnational frame. Zhans innovative ethnography at once de-ghettoizes Chinese medicine and charts the emerging cultural shape of the new Pacific Century.Engseng Ho, author of The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean
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""Other-Worldly" is accomplished, theoretically rich, and a pleasure to read. The inclusion of both San Francisco and Shanghai, the use of anthropological and feminist studies of science, and the focus on Chinese medicine 'in action' are particularly significant. Moreover, Mei Zhan achieves a marvelous balance between astute observation, her own experience, and the relational dimensions that emerge out of that experience."--Linda L. Barnes, author of "Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1948"
Descriere
A transnational ethnography of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in China and the US