Article ID: CBB001212968

Skilled Natives, Inept Coolies: Marmot Hunting and the Great Manchurian Pneumonic Plague (1910--1911) (2013)

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Taking as its setting the great Manchurian pneumonic plague epidemic of 1910--1911, this article examines the construction of epidemiological blame that targeted migrant labourers from the peninsula of Shandong employed in the hunting of the Siberian marmot (Marmota sibirica), a natural reservoir of the disease. The article demonstrates how Chinese epidemiologists sought to pathologize marmot-hunting migrants from Shandong as unskilled pestilent coolies, while at the same time valorizing Mongol and Buryat marmot hunters as a native counter-paradigm; a binary anthropology of skill and sanitation, which instituted coolies as an anthropological type essential to the construction of hygienic modernity in China.

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Description Explores how migrant labourers who hunted the Siberian marmot were blamed fro the plague.


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Authors & Contributors
Ashraf Wani, Mohd
Jones, Lori
Bhat, Rouf Ahmad
Bathsheba Demuth
Calverley, David
Knoll, Eva-Maria
Concepts
Plague
Epidemiology
Disease and diseases
Public health
Hunting; trapping
Emigration; immigration
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Medieval
18th century
Places
San Francisco (California)
Manchuria
China
Korea
Brazil
Arctic regions
Institutions
Hudson's Bay Company
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