Eating Spring Rice - The Cultural Politics of AIDS in Southwest China

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-520-24715-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

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 acknowledgement 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 requires 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-Lüe, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hyde, Sandra Teresa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Teresa Hyde is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.