Postcolonial Ecologies of Parasite and Host: Making Parasitism Cosmopolitan

The interest of F. Macfarlane Burnet in host–parasite interactions grew through the 1920s and 1930s, culminating in his book, Biological Aspects of Infectious Disease (1940), often regarded as the founding text of disease ecology. Our knowledge of the influences on Burnet’s ecological thinking is still incomplete. Burnet later attributed much of his conceptual development to his reading of British theoretical biology, especially the work of Julian Huxley and Charles Elton, and regretted he did not study Theobald Smith’s Parasitism and Disease (1934) until after he had formulated his ideas. Scholars also have adduced Burnet’s fascination with natural history and the clinical and public health demands on his research effort, among other influences. I want to consider here additional contributions to Burnet’s ecological thinking, focusing on his intellectual milieu, placing his research in a settler society with exceptional expertise in environmental studies and pest management. In part, an ‘‘ecological turn’’ in Australian science in the 1930s, derived to a degree from British colonial scientific investments, shaped Burnet’s conceptual development. This raises the question of whether we might characterize, in postcolonial fashion, disease ecology, and other studies of parasitism, as successful settler colonial or dominion science.     

Magical Hair as Dirt: Ecstatic Bodies and Postcolonial Reform in South India

This paper offers an ethnography of the medicalization of matted locks of hair (jade) worn by female ecstatics in a South Indian devi (goddess) cult. These jade are taken by devotees of the devi Yellamma to be a manifestation of her presence in the bodies of women who enter possession states and give oracles. At her temples across the central Deccan Plateau, Yellamma women can be seen wearing heavy locks of matted hair anointed with turmeric, the color and healing properties of which are identified with this devi. Under a recent government-sponsored campaign, reformers cut jade and hand out packets of shampoo as a means of reforming the extended and illicit sexuality of these women. Associations between sexuality and hair practices have long preoccupied anthropologists interested in the relationship between the body and culture. In this paper, I draw on this literature and more than 2 years of field research to consider the encounter between biomedical and Shakta epistemologies of the body dramatized in these jade cutting campaigns. This effort to remake the body as a fit site and sign of modernity elaborates the postcolonial politics of sexuality, gender and religiosity in India.     

Agriculture and economic development in India

The expansion in agricultural production is inevitable if India is to meet the food requirements of its increasing population. Today's utilization and consumption of the major economic crops, endeavors to improve these, and future needs are discussed.     

International Symposium:From Ecosystems to Modern Agriculture

<正>Scientific Committee:Zhihong Xu,Lizhe An,Chun-Ming Liu,Li-Jia Qu,Wei-Cai Yang,Leon Kochian William Lucas and Jia Li Website:http://www.jipb.net/jipbsymposiumlanzhou2015Keynote speakers:·Prof.William Lucas(University of California,Davis,USA)The plant vascular system functions as a major communication conduit to integrate gene regulatory networks at     

International Symposium:From Ecosystems to Modern Agriculture

<正>Organized by:Co-organized by:Scientific Committee:Zhihong Xu,Lizhe An,Chun-Ming Liu,Li-Jia Qu,Wei-Cai Yang,Leon Kochian William Lucas and Jia Li Website:http://www.jipb.net/jipbsymposiumlanzhou2015Keynote speakers:·Prof.William Lucas(University of California,Davis,USA)The plant vascular system functions as a major communication conduit to integrate gene regulatory networks at the whole-plant level·Prof.Kang Chong(Institute of Botany,CAS,China)How does rice sensye the cold?     

Continuity and Change in Modern India

A Caste in a Changing World: The Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmans, 1700–1935 . Frank F. Conlon. Sponsored by the Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xv + 255 pp. $15.00 (cloth).
Shanti Nagar: The Effects of Urbanization in a Village in North India. Vol. 1: Social Organization . Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed. Anthropological Papers, 53, Part 1. New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1976. 254 pp. $13.85 (paper).
Family and Social Change in Modern India . Giri Raj Gupta , ed. Main Currents in Indian Sociology, 2. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1976. xxxiv + 263 pp. n.p. (cloth).
Caste, Class and Democracy: Changes in a Stratification System . Vijai P. Singh. Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman, 1976. viii + 158 pp. $12.50 (cloth), $5.95 (paper).
Dimensions of Social Change in India . M. N. Srinivas, S. Seshaiah , and V. S. Parthasarathy , eds. New Delhi: Allied Publishers Private, 1977. xiii + 518 pp. Rs 60.00 (cloth).     

Laws of the Postcolonial

Laws of the Postcolonial. Eve Darian-Smith and Peter Fitzpatrick. eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 309 pp.     

Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy

Yoga in Modern India: The Body between Science and Philosophy. Joseph S. Alter. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. xxiii + 326 pp.     

Seminal Truth: A Modern Science of Male Celibacy in North India

Many scholars have noted that brahmacharya (celibacy) is an important concept in Hindu notions of male identity (cf. Kakar 1981, 1982, 1990; Obeyesekere 1976, 1981; for comparison, see Gilmore 1990). Although the psychological basis of this concept has been studied, there is very little in the literature on the "medical mechanics" of being and becoming a brahmachari. Nor is there a comprehensive account of the precise relationship between sex and the meaning of physical health in modern urban India. Through an examination of the popular Hindi literature on brahmacharya, interpreted within the context of therapeutic celibacy as put in practice by a modern yoga society, this article shows how a discourse about sex, semen, and health is conceived of in terms of embodied truth. Using Foucaulfs critique of Western sexuality as a contrasting frame of reference, I argue that the "truth" about sex in modern North India is worked out in somatic rather than psychological terms, in which morality is problematically defined by male physiology and gendered conceptions of good health, [celibacy, sex, yoga, health, semen, identity, North India]     

现代荧光免疫分析技术应用及其新发展

免疫分析作为一类特殊的试剂分析技术,已经被广泛应用于多个不同领域。作为免疫分析方法家族中的一员,现代荧光免疫分析技术在相关领域里也扮演了重要角色。现代荧光免疫分析技术主要包括荧光偏振免疫分析(FPIA)和时间分辩荧光免疫分析(TRFIA)两种技术。本文从原理角度出发,综述了FPIA和TRFIA近年来在分析领域中的应用,并且阐述了二者的一些最新发展动态。     

表观遗传学及现代表观遗传生物医药技术的发展

表观遗传学和基于表观遗传机制的生物医药技术的研究已经成为后基因组时代生命科学技术领域的重要组成部分。围绕肿瘤、心脑血管疾病、糖尿病及中老年神经退行性疾病等过程中DNA甲基化修饰、组蛋白翻译后修饰及非编码RNA等表观遗传学改变的深入研究,不仅有利于理解相关疾病的分子病理机制,而且,更有助于探寻基于表观遗传机制的有效治疗手段。在阐释表观遗传学修饰机制的基础上,对疾病过程中异常的表观遗传学修饰及相关生物医药技术的研究现状进行了归纳总结。     

加强合成生物技术创新，引领现代农业跨越发展

21世纪初兴起的合成生物技术被誉为影响世界未来的颠覆性技术之一,其在农业中应用将为世界性农业生产难题提供革命性解决方案,培育农业碳经济和氨经济等生物经济新形态,引领细胞农业、低碳农业和智能农业等新动能和新业态革命。简要总结了国际合成生物技术的发展现状与趋势,深入探讨了我国农业合成生物技术创新的发展战略与总体目标。     

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things

No Aging in India: Alzheimer's, the Bad Family, and Other Modern Things. Lawrence Cohen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. xxv. 367 pp.