Eating spring rice : the cultural politics of AIDS in Southwest China
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Eating spring rice : the cultural politics of AIDS in Southwest China
University of California Press, c2007
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ISBN 9780520247147
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"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 acknowledgment 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 require 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-Lue, 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.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration Introduction: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Postreform China PART 1 NARRATIVES OF THE STATE 1 The Aesthetics of Statistics 2 Everyday AIDS Practices: Risky Bodies and Contested Borders PART 2 NARRATIVES OF JINGHONG, SIPSONGPANNA 3 Sex Tourism and Performing Ethnicity in Jinghong 4 Eating Spring Rice: Transactional Sex in a Beauty Salon 5 A Sexual Hydraulic: Commercial "Sex Workers" and Condoms 6 Moral Economies of Sexuality Epilogue: What Is to Be Done? Notes References Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780520247154
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"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 acknowledgment 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 require 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-Lue, 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.
Table of Contents
Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Notes on Transliteration Introduction: The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Postreform China PART 1 NARRATIVES OF THE STATE 1 The Aesthetics of Statistics 2 Everyday AIDS Practices: Risky Bodies and Contested Borders PART 2 NARRATIVES OF JINGHONG, SIPSONGPANNA 3 Sex Tourism and Performing Ethnicity in Jinghong 4 Eating Spring Rice: Transactional Sex in a Beauty Salon 5 A Sexual Hydraulic: Commercial "Sex Workers" and Condoms 6 Moral Economies of Sexuality Epilogue: What Is to Be Done? Notes References Index
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