Ethnographic plague : configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier /: configuring disease on the Chinese-Russian frontier. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Christos Lynteris.
• Authors: Lynteris, Christos
• Contents: Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements ; Contents; List of Maps ; List of Illustration ; Chapter 1: Introduction; 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; Chapter 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; Chapter 3: Medical Myths and Mythic Medicine; Shape-Shifters; Medical Materialism Applied; Ignoring Inconvenient Ethnographic Data; Ritual into Hygiene; Notes; Chapter 4: Ethno-Geographic Entanglements; Importing Plague; Matignon's International Reception; Zabolotny's Endemic Theory; Dudchenko's Hybrid Hypothesis; Notes; Chapter 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; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Ethnographic Objectifications; Ethnographic Subjects as Subjects of and Against Plague; Functional Unreason; Towards a Critical Epidemiology; Notes; Bibliography; Archival Material and Reports; Published Sources; Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 614.5/732; 951; History; Plague -- China -- History; Plague -- Russia -- History; Plague -- Epidemiology; Social history; Plague -- history; MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine; MEDICAL -- Public Health; Plague; Plague -- Epidemiology; Social history; History -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History -- Social History; Regional & national history; Social & cultural history; History -- Asia -- China; Asian history; China -- History; Russia -- History; Europe, Eastern -- History; China; China; Europe, Eastern; Russia; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137596857; 1137596856
• Related ISBNs: 9781137596840; 1137596848
• Notes: Note: Online resource, title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on September 26, 2016).
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