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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784412203321

Autore

Hyde Sandra Teresa <1959->

Titolo

Eating spring rice [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural politics of AIDS in Southwest China / / Sandra Teresa Hyde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007

ISBN

9786612358388

1-282-35838-3

0-520-93948-4

1-4337-0876-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Disciplina

362.196/97920095135

Soggetti

AIDS (Disease) - China - Yunnan Sheng

AIDS (Disease) - Government policy - China - Yunnan Sheng

AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - China - Yunnan Sheng

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-255) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Narratives of the state -- pt. 2. Narratives of Jinghong, Sipsongpanna.

Sommario/riassunto

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.