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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:IAAS Lecture by Professor Arienne Dwyer - Postponed
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SUMMARY:IAAS Lecture by Professor Arienne Dwyer - Postponed
DESCRIPTION:<div>	<p>		* This lecture by Prof. Dwyer is postponed until further notice.	</p>	<p>		<strong><em>The Circulation of Medicine and Notions of Healing in Early 20th Century Chinese Turkestan via Network Analysis.</em></strong>	</p>	<p>		IAAS Lecture by Prof. Arienne Dwyer, Professor of Linguistic Anthropology, University of Kansas.	</p></div><p>	<a data-url="https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/files/iaas/files/iaas_lecture_oct_2019_dwyer_abstract.pdf" href="/file_url/165" title="">Abstract</a>   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 20<sup>th</sup> 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.</p><p>	Based on a project transcribing and translating 19<sup>th</sup> and early 20<sup>th</sup> 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.</p>
LOCATION:CGIS South Building, Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
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DTSTART:20191009T171500Z
DTEND:20191009T183000Z
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