Needles, Herbs, Gods, and Ghosts e-bog
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When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "e;rediscovery"e; 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 understa...
E-bog
337,32 DKK
Forlag
Harvard University Press
Udgivet
1 juli 2009
Længde
480 sider
Genrer
1FPC
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780674020542
When did the West discover Chinese healing traditions? Most people might point to the "e;rediscovery"e; 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.