ABSTRACT This article focuses on what we define as scalar intimacy in the stories people tell about their embodied experience sociohistorical beings. Our analysis, based ethnographic studies Northern Italy (Perrino) and Beijing, China (Pritzker), examines ways which speech participants draw upon various discursive strategies to ‘zoom in’ ‘pan out’ of both time space, placing themselves activities relation people, ideologies, practices. Scalar intimacy, argue, provides a novel framework for...

This paper explores the heart and brain metaphors used in meaning-making efforts of Chinese individuals diagnosed with depression. Past studies assert that origin language for thinking feeling can be found traditional medico-philosophical theory, where is viewed as seat thought emotion, brain, which constitutes cognitive center western theories self, secondary. While most participants employed to express feeling, many also metaphors. Instead suggesting this multiplicity implies...

Abstract This article examines the translation of inner child emotion pedagogies in contemporary China. With a focus on several interactions taking place within evening salons, observes pedagogical strategies and metalinguistic practices that translate as well transform novel ways. I emphasize ways which these encounters play upon boundaries between “inner” “outer” selves teaching distinct discursive consciousness regarding role language embodied expression healing self. argue this creates...

Previous research on language and emotion in anthropology has demonstrated that rather than being a private, subjective, prediscursive experience belonging to individuals, is an intersubjective, emergent process not only everywhere but also is. In this review, I discuss how recent linguistic related fields continued build such insights investigations of the flow affect across bodies, ways which politically situated ideologies function at various institutional scales, role enactment agency....

Abstract In this article, I examine the relationship between embodiment, learning, and translation in field of U.S. Chinese medical education. Based on data collected over two years video‐recorded classroom interaction audio‐recorded interviews a Southern California school medicine, present several examples how specific terms are interpreted learned vis‐à‐vis embodied experience. Analysis these segments demonstrates that does not end with chosen to represent concepts texts other materials,...

Abstract This article demonstrates the ongoing, culturally situated and co-constructed nature of translation Chinese medicine from into English. Building upon scholarship in anthropology, sociolinguistics, studies, this contributes to building an anthropologically grounded theory as ongoing lived event, with implications far beyond simple transfer meaning “source” “target” languages. Through examination video audio data collected over two years, I show how participants classroom interactions...

Various attempts at language standardization have been central in efforts to integrate Chinese medicine into a global, mainstream medical framework. At the same time, has also proven critical personal frameworks of meaning as students around globe grapple with multiple translations. In an effort convey some these diverse experiences and plurality translations, this article offers four "snapshots" life medicine. These snapshots are derived from extensive, multisited ethnographic research...

This article examines the core qualities of contemporary biomedical notions person-centered medicine alongside similar person-centeredness in Chinese medicine. In biomedicine, we examine central patient agency, satisfaction and decision-making power, “whole person” healthcare debates, provider-patient relationship goal personalized treatment. medicine, similarly discuss tenets participation, holistic, individualized diagnosis treatment role both After comparing overlaps differences between...

Aim . This study identifies existing definitions and approaches among China’s integrative medicine (IM) experts examines relationships with key characteristics distinguishing individual experts. Methods Snowball sampling was used to select 73 IM for semistructured interviews. In this mixed methods study, we first identified through analyzing core statements. Four factors, including age, education, practice type, working environment, were then chosen evaluate the associations definitions....

Abstract This article examines how the death of Li Wenliang, in February 2020, served as an affordance for Chinese netizens to engage with their intimate sense themselves political subjects through interrogative process scalar inquiry. Li, ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital who was sanctioned by authorities 2019 warning friends about virus, also eminently normative and successful Han citizen many saw a reflection themselves. His persecution, public humiliation, thus indexed...

This paper is about interaction in the clinic of Dr. Song Yujin, a physician who practices “Chinese medical psychology” Beijing, China. In particular, we highlight how challenges deep‐seated ideas family, personhood, and healing among his patients. Through close study one that has with patient her demonstrate draws upon prosody, gaze, teaching talk, terminology to construct local metapragmatic framework within which utterances, gestures, other semiotic devices can be interpreted as...

Objectives: This study describes the development and feasibility of Integrative Nutritional Counseling (INC), a Chinese medicine (CM)+biomedicine-based nutrition curriculum for Americans with type 2 diabetes. Although often incorporate CM principles into their diet, scant research has explored how to integrate biomedical standards in culturally appropriate manner or if such program could improve diabetes self-management. Design: is 1-month pre-post design including three points contact:...

Abstract Drawing on linguistic and biocultural anthropological perspectives embodiment, this paper advances a “biolinguistic” approach to ethnographic research intimacy, attending simultaneously the co‐constitutive interactive, psychophysiological, phenomenological processes that emerge in everyday embodied interaction between long‐term, cohabitating romantic partners. Through concurrent attention natural interactions captured during video ethnography moment‐to‐moment shifts heart‐rate...