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SUMMARY:CERES Computer Café: New Digital Tools for the History of Medicin
 e and Religion in China
DTSTART:20170607T141500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Guest lecture by Michael Stanley-Baker\, Max Planck Institute 
 for the History of Science\, Berlin.\n\nRecent shifts to performative\, pr
 actice and materiality-based approaches to the histories of religion and o
 f science have called into question the very categories with which we do o
 ur studies\, requiring more flexible research tools. The recent emergence 
 of Buddhist and Daoist Medicine as new fields of historical inquiry challe
 nges the habitual borders between earlier histories of religion and medici
 ne. As historians begin to draw on long-known insights from anthropology\,
  that therapeutic and salvific aims frequently converge in practice\, they
  have begun to investigate the admixture of “medical” practices such a
 s drugs\, needles and moxibustion with “religious” practices such as i
 ncantation\, spells and rituals. However\, there is currently no systemati
 c way to get an overview for how therapies were distributed.\n\nThis paper
  presents a pilot study of a platform which shows the distribution of ther
 apeutic practices across the Buddhist and Daoist canons\, the communities 
 who wrote these texts\, and across time and space. It is being developed b
 y Dept. III of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Nat
 ional Taiwan University’s Research Centre for Digital Humanities\, in co
 ncert with Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts. The tool focusses on rep
 ertoires of material practice which can be identified as term lists. The c
 urrent study examines drug term distribution across Buddhist\, Daoist and 
 medical texts throughout Six Dynasties (ca 220-589 ce). It can show the st
 atistical distribution of large term sets across bibliographic and sectari
 an genres\, as well as time and space. We then markup texts for more detai
 led analysis\, which can then be visualised on GIS maps and subjected to a
 lgorithmic analysis.\n\nBy combining large-scale analytical tools and a fu
 ll-text database in the same platform\, this tool enables researchers to e
 asily switch between close and distant reading modes. While this pilot foc
 usses on drug knowledge\, it can be applied for any material practice whic
 h can be identified through large term set or vocabulary\, such as ritual 
 gestures\, acupuncture points\, body gods\, pantheons etc.\n\nFor more\, s
 ee here.\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://dh.ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-computer-cafe-new-digital-tool
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