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Ethnographic Plague, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 Configuring Disease on the Chinese-Russian Frontier

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Challenging the concept that since the discovery of the plague bacillus in 1894 the study of the disease was dominated by bacteriology, Ethnographic Plague argues for the role of ethnography as a vital contributor to the configuration of plague at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a focus on research on the Chinese-Russian frontier, where a series of pneumonic plague epidemics shook the Chinese, Russian and Japanese Empires, this book examines how native Mongols and Buryats came to be understood as holding a traditional knowledge of the disease. Exploring the forging and consequences of this alluring theory, this book seeks to understand medical fascination with culture, so as to underline the limitations of the employment of the latter as an explanatory category in the context of infectious disease epidemics, such as the recent SARS and Ebola outbreaks.

Introduction: Plague Beyond the Laboratory. - 1. The Native Knowledge Hypothesis. - 2. Medical Myths and Mythic Medicine. - 3. Ethno-Geographic Entanglements. - 4. Anthropological Types and Clustered Hypotheses. - Conclusion: Ethnographic Data as Medical Evidence.

Christos Lynteris is a social anthropologist working on biopolitical and visual aspects of infectious disease epidemics. He is Senior Research Associate at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK, and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council funded project Visual Representations of the Third Plague Pandemic. He is also the author of The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China (2012).

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