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Medical discourses, Naxi identities, and the state: Transformations in Socialist China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medical discourses, Naxi identities, and the state: Transformations in Socialist China./
Author:	White, Sydney Davant.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	377 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A, page: 1616.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-06A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9430362

Medical discourses, Naxi identities, and the state: Transformations in Socialist China.
White, Sydney Davant.

Medical discourses, Naxi identities, and the state: Transformations in Socialist China. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 377 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-06, Section: A, page: 1616.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley with the University of California, San Francisco, 1993.

This dissertation explores the links between medical pluralism, cultural pluralism, and the nature of the Chinese state. This is undertaken through an ethnographically situated analysis of the experiences of the Naxi "minority nationality", of Lijiang County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, over the four decades since the 1949 Chinese Communist revolution. The relationship between the state and local level society is examined through tracing how two arenas of state policy--medical policies and minority policies--have been played out in both village and town contexts of Lijiang basin Naxi society via processes of accommodation, appropriation, and/or contestation. It is argued that these and other arenas of state policy reflect two distinctive discourses: a discourse of hierarchy (encompassing streams of socialist modernity, unilinear social evolutionism, and "civilization"), and a discourse of authenticity. It is further argued that these dual discourses both inform and reflect a narrative of modernity which is unique to the Chinese socialist state, and is a legacy of the Maoist era. In this narrative, certain aspects of Chinese "tradition" are valorized and occupy a position alongside "modernity" and "modernization" in state policies; it is aspects of Chinese and minority cultures that are labeled as "backward" which are juxtaposed against "modernity". The contours of this narrative of modernity are clearly reflected in both therapeutic practices (particularly the rural practice of "integrated Chinese and Western medicine") and discourses of cultural identity (including ethnicity) in the Lijiang basin. With respect to Naxi identity, it is argued that medical practices represent an arena of basin Naxi culture which particularly reflects the hegemony of both the Chinese socialist state and the Confucian discourses that are embedded in Chinese medicine. In contrast, gender represents an arena of basin Naxi culture where contestation vis-a-vis state discourses is operating, both in terms of the construction of Naxi ethnicity and in terms of medical practices.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Medical discourses, Naxi identities, and the state: Transformations in Socialist China.
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