#  IAAS Lecture by Professor Arienne Dwyer - Postponed 

 



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 **October 9, 2019** 

 01:15PM - 02:30PM EDT 

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 **CGIS South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 \* This lecture by Prof. Dwyer is postponed until further notice.

 ***The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis.***

 IAAS Lecture by Prof. Arienne Dwyer, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas.

 [Abstract](/file_url/165) At the nexus of trade and migration routes between East, South and Central Asia and Siberia, the residents of Chinese Turkestan (Xinjiang) up to/in early 20th century had access to a variety of ideas about healing and medicines and amalgamated them freely. Comparing medical formulae within a text and different healing practices between different texts allows us to begin to understand the transmission of medical substances and ideas in premodern Central Eurasia.

 Based on a project transcribing and translating 19th and early 20th c. Turki medical manuscripts, this paper reveals that Greco-Arab medical practices were circulation in Chinese Turkestan; these were combined with spirit-mediumship and animism, overlaid with Sufism, while aspects of South Asian and Chinese medicine are also present. I explore the use of network analysis to uncover patterns in the medical-formula data across manuscripts.



 

 



 

 

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