Ethnographic plague : configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier / Christos Lynteris
- Author:
- Lynteris, Christos
- Additional Titles:
- Configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier
- Published:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2016
- Physical Description:
- xix, 199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Plague Beyond the Laboratory -- Plague, a Biological Sketch -- Laboratory Transformations of Plague -- The Limitations of Laboratory-Centrism -- Plague Ethnographies -- Gnosiological Enclosures -- Local Epidemics, Global Epidemiology: The Scope of Anthropological Critique -- Notes -- 2.The Native Knowledge Hypothesis -- The Great Siberian Expedition -- The Vetlianka Plague -- Plague in Transbaikalia -- Native Knowledge Hypothesis -- International Reception -- Epistemological Questions and Ethnomethodological Mystification -- Notes -- 3.Medical Myths and Mythic Medicine -- Shape-Shifters -- Medical Materialism Applied -- Ignoring Inconvenient Ethnographic Data -- Ritual into Hygiene -- Notes -- 4.Ethno-Geographic Entanglements -- Importing Plague -- Matignon's International Reception -- Zabolotny's Endemic Theory -- Dudchenko's Hybrid Hypothesis -- Notes -- 5.Anthropological Types and Clustered Hypotheses -- Wu Liande's Ethnographic Narrative -- International Reception -- Floating Population -- Ignorant and Inept -- The Two Hypotheses -- The Summer 1911 Expedition -- Epidemiological Reasoning -- Notes -- 6.Conclusion: Ethnographic Data as Medical Evidence -- Ethnographic Objectifications -- Ethnographic Subjects as Subjects of and Against Plague -- Functional Unreason -- Towards a Critical Epidemiology -- Notes.
- Subject(s):
- 1900-1999
- Plague—China—Manchuria—History—20th century
- Plague—China—History—20th century
- Plague—Epidemiology
- Medical anthropology
- Ethnology
- Epidemiology—China—History
- Plague—history
- Plague—transmission
- Plague—ethnology
- Marmota
- Disease Vectors
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Epidemiology
- Plague
- 44.06 medical sociology
- China—ethnology
- Siberia—ethnology
- Mongolia—ethnology
- China
- China—Manchuria
- Manchuria
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781137596840 (alk. paper)
1137596848 (alk. paper)
9781137596857 (eBook) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-189) and index.
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