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Xun Zhou
I am a historian working at the boundaries of health, medicine, science, religion, and everyday ...
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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: The Eurasian Life of a Seventeenth-Century European Botanical Classic.
This group examines the Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (1678–93)—a survey of the floral riches of Malabar in southwest India—as an example of experiential
Language and Governance in Qing Inner Asia
Establishing and promulgating standard languages were essential features of state-building in nation states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
Lorraine Daston interviewed in The Nation on the history of rules
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Weiter zum ArtikelReaping the Benefits of Water: The Technological Underpinnings of Political Reform in Eleventh-Century China
Much of the discussion of the Qingli 慶曆 and Xifeng 熙豐 reforms in eleventh-century China has hitherto focused on their economic and intellectual dimens
Human/Animal Division in Nineteenth-Century Russian Medical and Ethnographic Accounts
Based upon works of medical practitioners and ethnographers, the project explores the environmental imagery of animal waste and the corresponding huma
Christos Lynteris
Christos Lynteris is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. He has p...
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Lost People on the Ming Frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China
My project contributes a distinct community of labor to “Ability and Authority”: one that was created through cross-border captivity. This project wil