Historical Anthropology Lecture Series

Man and Nature are One: Living with Plants, Thinking up Medicine

Asia/Hong_KongMan and Nature are One: Living with Plants, Thinking up Medicine
    Asia/Hong_KongMan and Nature are One: Living with Plants, Thinking up Medicine
      Overview

      Title:

      Man and Nature are One: Living with Plants, Thinking up Medicine

      Speaker:

      Professor Judith B. Farquhar (Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences; Chairperson, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago)

      Date:

      October 18, 2011

      Time:

      3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

      Venue:

      2/F, Department of Anthropology, Martin Hall, Sun Yat-sen University

      Language:

      English

      About the Speaker

      Farquhar教授主要研究當代中國的傳統醫葯、大眾文化與日常生活,涉及醫學人類學,知識與身體觀的人類學,批判理論,文化研究,閱讀、書寫及翻譯理論等等。中國西南地區,向以植物品種繁多著稱,本演講主要探討當地人與本土物種共處的文化。

      Organizers

      Centre for Historical Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University

      Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong

      South China Research Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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