ISBN:
9781782383116
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
228 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Keywords:
Medical Anthropology,
Abstract:
Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience, Living Translation examines the worlds of international translators as well as U.S. teachers and students of Chinese medicine, focusing on the transformations that occur as participants engage in a "search for resonance" with foreign terms and concepts. Based on a close examination of heated international debates as well as specific texts, classroom discussions, and interviews with publishers, authors, teachers, and students, Sonya Pritzker demonstrates the "living translation" of Chinese medicine as a process unfolding through interaction, inscription, embodied experience, and clinical practice. By documenting the stream of conversations that together constitute this process, the book thus traces the translation of Chinese medicine from text to practice with an eye towards the social, political, historical, moral, and even personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- -- Introduction: In Search of Resonance -- Note on the Text: Transcription Conventions -- -- Chapter 1. The Real Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 2. Ideas about Words, and Words about Ideas -- Chapter 3. Living Inscription in Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 4. Interaction in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 5. Embodied Experience in the Living Translation of Chinese Medicine -- Chapter 6. Living Translation in and into Practice -- -- Conclusion: Learning to Listen -- -- References -- Index --
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