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大阪外国語大学論集. 2007, 35, p. 129-144

住村, 欣範

大阪外国語大学

Japanese

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2007-03-09

研究ノート

This is an essay on health and plant utilization in Vietnam. It tries to take an interdisciplinary approach to its subject, weaving together history, ethnography, and survey materials to examine the epistemological and practical ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their medicine and food. Firstly, making a brief survey of some dichotomies in the plural medical system in Vietnam such as public/folk, scientific/naturalistic, Western/Eastern, Northern medicine/Southern medicine, hot/cool, this essay shows that Vietnamese traditional knowledge on the medical plants occurred from indigenous experience up to the middle of the 20th century. Secondly, it considers on plants in the home garden of Vietnamese peasants. After the Doi Moi policy started in 1980s, traditional knowledge and practices have persisted but are now expressed through and alongside global medical knowledge. Western medicine has been eagerly adopted and incorporated into everyday life in Vietnam, but not entirely on its own terms. For Vietnamese peasants, home garden has been the most familiar place to accumulate practical knowledge on plants. But in the official discourse, the Vietnamese hot and cold theory on plants is separated by scientific knowledge on Southern medicine (indigenous medical herbs). As a result, plants in home garden are classified merely in the category of food. Lastly, this essay raises some questions on the Vietnamese practical knowledge of plants utilization in a holistic perspective.

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ベトナムにおける植物利用と「健康」 : 食と医の間

住村, 欣範

大阪外国語大学

Japanese

2007-03-09

大阪外国語大学論集

35

129

144

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/80016