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. 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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... described, and received Chinese healing practices. Meanings assigned to “Chineseness” converged with unfolding formulations of race and racial identities, with race config- ured as a Manichaean opposition between black and white poles ...
... described, and received Chinese healing practices. Meanings assigned to “Chineseness” converged with unfolding formulations of race and racial identities, with race config- ured as a Manichaean opposition between black and white poles ...
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... described attending court banquets: “For we Minor Friars have a place of abode appointed out for us in the emperor's court, and are enjoined to go and bestow our blessing on him” (Komroff 1928, 239). Odoric traveled throughout China ...
... described attending court banquets: “For we Minor Friars have a place of abode appointed out for us in the emperor's court, and are enjoined to go and bestow our blessing on him” (Komroff 1928, 239). Odoric traveled throughout China ...
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... described a physiological type and a psy- chological profile . Health involved the equilibrium of the humors appropriate to a given person's complexion ; disease lay in their im- balance , or improper mixture . Thirteenth - century ...
... described a physiological type and a psy- chological profile . Health involved the equilibrium of the humors appropriate to a given person's complexion ; disease lay in their im- balance , or improper mixture . Thirteenth - century ...
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... described several, as when Yunnan hunters killed crocodiles (“serpents”) for their gall, to use against rabid dog bites, for difficult labor, and to cure tumors. He saw camphor trees in Fujian and re- ferred, in passing, to the district ...
... described several, as when Yunnan hunters killed crocodiles (“serpents”) for their gall, to use against rabid dog bites, for difficult labor, and to cure tumors. He saw camphor trees in Fujian and re- ferred, in passing, to the district ...
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... described trance possession and ritual healing in “the Province named Cingui” (in Yunnan): In thys Province, and in the other two afore specifyed, there be no Phisitions, but when they doe fall sicke, they cause to come unto their ...
... described trance possession and ritual healing in “the Province named Cingui” (in Yunnan): In thys Province, and in the other two afore specifyed, there be no Phisitions, but when they doe fall sicke, they cause to come unto their ...
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14921659 | 36 |
16601736 | 72 |
17371804 | 126 |
18051848 | 212 |
Conclusion | 348 |
Notes | 355 |
Abbreviations | 369 |
Bibliography | 374 |
Index | 437 |
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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 |
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