Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848Harvard University Press, 30 jun 2009 - 458 páginas When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the rediscovery of Chinese acupuncture in the 1970s. In Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts, Linda Barnes leads us back, instead, to the thirteenth century to uncover the story of the West's earliest known encounters with Chinese understandings of illness and healing. As Westerners struggled to understand new peoples unfamiliar to them, how did they make sense of equally unfamiliar concepts and practices of healing? Barnes traces this story through the mid-nineteenth century, in both Europe and, eventually, the United States. She has unearthed numerous examples of Western missionaries, merchants, diplomats, and physicians in China, Europe, and America encountering and interpreting both Chinese people and their healing practices, and sometimes adopting their own versions of these practices. A medical anthropologist with a degree in comparative religion, Barnes illuminates the way constructions of medicine, religion, race, and the body informed Westerners' understanding of the Chinese and their healing traditions. |
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... demonic warriors . Although horde de- rived from ordu ( Turkish for “ camp ” ) , this distortion lodged itself in European collective memory . It then took little to identify the Khan with the Antichrist , who was expected to conquer ...
... demonic warriors . Although horde de- rived from ordu ( Turkish for “ camp ” ) , this distortion lodged itself in European collective memory . It then took little to identify the Khan with the Antichrist , who was expected to conquer ...
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... demonic. Giovanni pointed to the Mongols' engagement with local gods: “When they receive an answer from the demons ... demons and they assemble in their dwell- ing by night those who wish to consult the demon and they place cooked meat ...
... demonic. Giovanni pointed to the Mongols' engagement with local gods: “When they receive an answer from the demons ... demons and they assemble in their dwell- ing by night those who wish to consult the demon and they place cooked meat ...
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... demonic was irretrievably associated with the offspring of fallen angels and women , there was no room for the potentially benev- olent demons of Chinese legends who might intervene to help the living . To illustrate : A minor demon ...
... demonic was irretrievably associated with the offspring of fallen angels and women , there was no room for the potentially benev- olent demons of Chinese legends who might intervene to help the living . To illustrate : A minor demon ...
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... Demons were expected in the wilderness . “ Then we sang loudly ' Credo in unum Deum ' [ I Believe in One God ] and ... demons to leave the bodies of the possessed in Jesus ' name . The exorcised submitted to baptism , after which the fri ...
... Demons were expected in the wilderness . “ Then we sang loudly ' Credo in unum Deum ' [ I Believe in One God ] and ... demons to leave the bodies of the possessed in Jesus ' name . The exorcised submitted to baptism , after which the fri ...
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... demons leaped to rescue the idols. “And so the friars take holy water and sprinkle it upon the fire, and that straightway drives away the demon from the fire; and so the friars again casting the idols in the fire, they are consumed. And ...
... demons leaped to rescue the idols. “And so the friars take holy water and sprinkle it upon the fire, and that straightway drives away the demon from the fire; and so the friars again casting the idols in the fire, they are consumed. And ...
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14921659 | 36 |
16601736 | 72 |
17371804 | 126 |
18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
Index | 437 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Linda L. Barnes Vista previa restringida - 2007 |
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Linda L. Barnes Vista previa restringida - 2005 |
Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts: China, Healing, and the West to 1848 Linda L. BARNES No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2005 |
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