20th century
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aids epidemic
anthropologists
Author_Sandra Teresa Hyde
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chinese culture
chinese government
chinese society
cultural anthropology
cultural politics
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ethnic discrimination
ethnic dynamics
ethnographers
ethnographic study
han
history of prejudice
hiv aids
infectious diseases
minority experience
post reform era
public health crisis
public health policies
sex workers
social historians
social stigmas
southwest china
thailand
yunnan province
Product details
- ISBN 9780520247154
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Jan 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Sandra Teresa Hyde is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.
