Judith B. Farquhar

(PhD, U Chicago 1986) Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, does research on traditional medicine, popular culture, and everyday life in contemporary China. Anthropological areas of interest include medical anthropology; the anthropology of knowledge and of embodiment; critical theory and cultural studies; and theories of reading, writing, and translation.
email: farquhar@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Selected Publications:

n.d. Chinese Medicine as Popular Knowledge in Urban China. In L. Barnes and T.J. Hinrichs, eds., Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History. Harvard University Press (forthcoming).

n.d. Sketching the Dao: Chinese Medicine in Modern Cartoons. In V. Lo, ed., Globalising Chinese Medicine: An Illustrated History. E.J. Brill (forthcoming).

2007 (ed. w/ M. Lock) Beyond the Body Proper: Reading the Anthropology of Material Life. Durham: Duke University Press.

2006 Food, Eating and the Good Life. In C. Tilley, et al., eds., The Sage Handbook of Material Culture. London: Sage, 145-160.

2005 Biopolitical Beijing: Pleasure, Sovereignty, and Self-Cultivation in China ’s Capital. Cultural Anthropology. 20(3):303-327.

2002 Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. Durham: Duke University Press.

2001 For Your Reading Pleasure: Popular Health Advice and the Anthropology of Everyday Life in 1990s Beijing. Positions. 9(1): 105-130.

1999 Technologies of Everyday Life: The Economy of Impotence in Reform China. Cultural Anthropology. 14(2): 155-179.

1996 Market Magic: Getting Rich and Getting Personal in Medicine after Mao. American Ethnologist 23(2): 239-257.

1996 'Medicine and the Changes Are One': An Essay on Divination Healing with Commentary. Chinese Science. No. 13: 107-134.

1995 Rewriting Chinese Medicine in Post-Mao China. In D. Bates, ed., Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 251-276.

1994 Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter in Chinese Medicine. Boulder: Westview Press.

1994 Eating Chinese Medicine. Cultural Anthropology. 9(4): 471-497

1994 Multiplicity, Point of View, and Responsibility in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In A. Zito & T. Barlow, eds., Body, Subjectivity and Power in China. University of Chicago Press, 78-99.

1991 Objects, Processes, and Female Infertility in Chinese Medicine. Medical Anthropology Quarterly (NS) 5(4): 370-399.