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Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China - Couverture souple

Hyde, Sandra Teresa

 
9780520247154: Eating Spring Rice: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520247159 ISBN 13 : 9780520247154
Editeur : University of California Press, 2009

Synopsis

Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.

Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sandra Teresa Hyde is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520247159
ISBN 13 
9780520247154
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
292
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Personne responsable
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