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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/magic-religion-and-medicine-an
 thropological-study-suffering-and-care-philippines/
SUMMARY:Magic\, Religion\, and Medicine: Conflicts and Crossing among Plura
 l Medical Systems in the Modern Philippines
DESCRIPTION:\n	Azuma Kentaro (Associate Professor\, Graduate School of Lett
 ers\, Nagoya University\; HYI Visiting Scholar)\n	Chair/Discussant: Byron 
 Good (Professor of Medical Anthropology\, Department of Social Medicine\, 
 Harvard Medical School\; Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, Harvard 
 University)\n\n	Co-sponsored with the Harvard University Asia Center\n\n\n
 	This talk examines\, from the case of plural medical systems in a provinc
 ial city of the Philippines\, the relationship among magic\, religion and 
 modern medicine as well as the utilization of each system as a resource fo
 r the sick.\n\n	Anthropologists have long been concerned with the magical 
 and religious beliefs and practices of people belonging to the non-Western
  world\, under the condition of asymmetrical relations such as traditional
 /modern\, colonized/colonizing or developing/developed. In recent years\, 
 following the changing context in post-modernity\, late capitalism and glo
 balization\, there are new trends to posit magic and religion as our own i
 rrationality or malcontents in the contemporary world. However\, such shif
 ts may merely be a transitional measure that replaces the otherness differ
 ent from us with the otherness within us.\n	\n	This talk presents field da
 ta on the plural medical systems including conflict\, tension\, and oppres
 sion as well as the cross-cutting medical behaviors of sick people in a pr
 ovincial city of the Philippine. The three systems of magic\, religion\, a
 nd modern medicine\, while being in a competitive power relationship with 
 each other\, keep everyday activity with their own logic. Even after recog
 nizing the asymmetric relationship between the medical systems and their i
 nfluences\, sick people cross among multiple medical systems in everyday l
 ife.\n\n	Finally\, this talk will examine how people continue to desire ma
 gic and religion encompassing the strong otherness in the fully modern con
 text. It will be another way of seeking for the otherness as neither being
  different from us nor part of us\, but as something unspeakable or unpres
 ent yet to come.
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