Conférence de Christos Lynteris sur la peste
« Knowing plague: anthropological and medical interpretations of human-animal relations in Inner Asia »
Taking as its setting the great Manchurian pneumonic plague epidemic of 1910–1911, this conference will examine the construction of epidemiological blame that targeted migrant labourers from the peninsula of Shandong employed in the hunting of the Siberian marmot (Marmota sibirica), a natural reservoir of the disease. The article demonstrates how Chinese epidemiologists sought to pathologize marmot-hunting migrants from Shandong as unskilled pestilent “coolies”, while at the same time valorizing Mongol and Buryat marmot hunters as a “native” counter-paradigm; a binary anthropology of skill and sanitation, which instituted “coolies” as an anthropological type essential to the construction of hygienic modernity in China.
Date
Le 31 octobre
Lieu
Collège de France
52 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, salle 1.
- Christos Lynteris est l’auteur de The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China: Socialist Medicine and the New Man. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 136 p.
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Monique Abud (25 octobre 2013). Conférence de Christos Lynteris sur la peste. ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 14 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqf8