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Capturing Quicksilver

Series: Epistemologies of Healing

General Editors: David Parkin and Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford

This series in medical anthropology publishes monographs and collected essays on indigenous (so-called traditional) medical knowledge and practice, alternative and complementary medicine, and ethnobiological studies that relate to health and illness. The emphasis of the series is on the way indigenous epistemologies inform healing, against a background of comparison with other practices, and in recognition of the fluidity between them.

Volume 1

Conjuring Hope: Healing and Magic in Contemporary Russia

Galina Lindquist

Volume 2

Precious Pills: Medicine and Social Change among Tibetan Refugees in India

Audrey Prost

Volume 3

Working with Spirit: Experiencing Izangoma Healing in Contemporary South Africa

Jo Thobeka Wreford

Volume 4

Dances with Spiders: Crisis, Celebrity and Celebration in Southern Italy

Karen Ldtke

Volume 5

The Land Is Dying: Contingency, Creativity and Conflict in Western Kenya

Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Jane Prince

Volume 6

Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology

Edited by Elisabeth Hsu and Stephen Harris

Volume 7

Morality, Hope and Grief: Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa

Edited by Hansjrg Dilger and Ute Luig

Volume 8

Folk Healing and Health Care Practices in Britain and Ireland: Stethoscopes, Wands and Crystals

Edited by Ronnie Moore and Stuart McClean

Volume 9

Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft

Koen Stroeken

Volume 10

Medicine between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds

Edited by Vincanne Adams, Mona Schrempf, and Sienna R. Craig

Volume 11

Fortune and the Cursed: The Sliding Scale of Time in Mongolian Divination

Katherine Swancutt

Volume 12

Manufacturing Tibetan Medicine: The Creation of an Industry and the Moral Economy of Tibetanness

Martin Saxer

Volume 13

The Body in Balance: Humoral Medicines in Practice

Edited by Peregrine Horden and Elisabeth Hsu

Volume 14

Asymmetrical Conversations: Contestations, Circumventions, and the Blurring of Therapeutic Boundaries

Edited by Harish Naraindas, Johannes Quack, and William S. Sax

Volume 15

Healing Roots: Anthropology in Life and Medicine

Julie Laplante

Volume 16

Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances through Practice

Isabell Herrmans

Volume 17

Capturing Quicksilver: The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Arielle A. Smith

Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore

Arielle A. Smith

First published in 2018 by

Berghahn Books

www.berghahnbooks.com

2018 Arielle A. Smith

All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

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ISBN: 978-1-78533-794-9 hardback

EISBN: 978-1-78533-795-6 ebook

For the first and final sparks, for unwavering support, and for literally and figuratively mapping the way thanks, Mom.

Contents

Illustrations

All photographs by the author

Preface

For more than six years I have danced with memories: earnest faces and loud chatter in clinic waiting rooms, a physicians steady hand twisting acupuncture needles, and pharmacists assembling paper packets full of herbs; plastic tables and chairs, plumes of aromatic steam, and small dishes of fish sauce and fresh-cut chili padi (a very popular variety of chili pepper) in hawker centers; concrete pillars, tidy courtyards, and laundry poles jutting from row after row of windows in high-rise apartment complexes. These memories of Singapore shimmy and weave beside their Oxford fellows: students with furrowed brows bent over pen and paper, keyboards, and books; animated discussions in seminar rooms and muffled coughs in vaulted libraries; exposed rafters, polished hardwood bars and tables, and intimate nooks and crannies in pubs, old and new; porters lodges, quads, gardens, common rooms, dining halls, and cloisters adorned by elegant arches, impeccably manicured pathways, gargoyles, and spires. Threaded between these snippets of space and time are Rocky Mountain peaks and valleys; the familiar faces and embraces of family and friends; and the snows, spring runoff, autumn colors, and summer adventures of my western Montana home.

Reconciling nearly seven years of life, travel, research, and writing in such different locales has taken time and careful consideration: memories can be unreliable (and field notes sometimes unintelligible), and are flavored by sentiment, shifting perspectives, disruptive and disjointed experiences, and the passage of time. From my undergraduate days at the University of Montana and the University of California, Berkeley, to doctoral study at the University of Oxford, I have tried to question what I think I know, accurately report what I learn, and refine my inquiries. Now, poised in the predawn of an entirely different set of life circumstances, I have cause to pause and reflect on this idiosyncratic collection of experiences. While reflection and reflexivity are complex topics that I will address in subsequent pages, here I would like to consider a more basic question: What do I hope to accomplish with this book?

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