Céline Coderey
Biographic Data
| ID | 309814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Céline Coderey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Céline |
| FAMILY NAME | Coderey |
| SIGNATURE | CODEREY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0984-9396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Myanmar Traditional Medicine
In the aftermath of independence, obtained in 1948, the Burmese government launched a project to valorize and promote traditional medicine which comprised the institutionalization and standardization of the teaching, practice, and production of medicines. The government justified this project by asserting the importance of protecting and improving-in terms of both quality and accessibility-this precious national heritage. Having contributed to th…
Healing the whole
Based on fieldwork conducted among the Buddhist population living in Rakhine State, Myanmar, between 2005 and 2011, this article elucidates how people deal with health and illness and related uncertainties by relying on a multiplicity of conceptions and practices associated with Buddhism, astrology, spirit cults, as well as indigenous and Western medicine. This article unpacks this plurality to show how different components contribute to the heal…
Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine
Immortal Medicine
The institutionalization of indigenous medicine in contemporary Myanmar (Burma) placed alchemy at the margins of the formal health system. The practice, however, remains very much alive. Here, I explore the resilience of alchemic medicine by unraveling the relationship between this practice and the social space within which it operates. I show that the negotiation of a space for resilience comes from the gray areas created by the weak regulatory …
Gold Ash
Gold ash' (shway pya), a substance Burmese alchemists produce through a complex process of the combination and burning of metals, is considered by many Burmese as the most potent medical ingredient existing in the country. In this article, I explore the factors underpinning its exceptional potency. Grounding my analysis on ethnography conducted in Myanmar since 2004, and more specifically on the case study of Master U Shein (1926-2014), the most …
Health
This chapter describes reforms of the health care system and the way they were implemented in order to assess what was new in these reforms and what was not, what improvement they brought, what were their weaknesses and whether or not they are progressing in the direction initially planned. It provides the contextualisation before turning to outline the reforms themselves. The chapter also describes how they are affecting the country overall but …
Drugs’ Life
Based on the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Rakhine State (Western Myanmar), this article aims to define the local accessibility of biomedical drugs and the use people make of them. Following the ‘biographical’ approach developed by Van der Geest and his colleagues (1989, 1996, 2002), the article shows how the appropriation by local people of biomedical drugs is very much determined by the social, cultural and economic reality in which peopl…
The Buddhist Grammar of Healing
In Rakhine State, like elsewhere in Myanmar and in the region, many healers combine the knowledge and skills of both the herbalist and the exorcist, each resulting from the blending of several medical traditions that have spread across the region and mixed with indigenous belief systems. Within this assemblage, both the efficacy of the remedies, as well as that of the healer, derive from compounds of different sources—tangible and intangible, vis…
Coping with health-related uncertainties and risks in Rakhine (Myanmar)
In this article, I use an anthropological perspective to investigate how uncertainty and risk related to health are understood and managed by members of the Buddhist population living in the central part of Rakhine State, in Western Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), in a context of therapeutic pluralism and of a highly lacking formal health system. Drawing on data from six fieldwork trips, which I undertook between 2005 and 2014 in the Thandwe a…
The Healing Power of the Gift Healing Services and Remuneration in Rakhine (Western Myanmar)
Based on data that have been collected during several field trips to Rakhine State, this article describes the way the movements of services and goods in the healing sector take place and are interpreted by local people and outlines the factors underlying these performances and interpretations and their meaning with regard the healing process itself. Although from an etic point of view, most transfers that take place in the healing sector represe…
Kyanmabase, « Bonne santé à vous ! ». Logiques et pratiques d’automédication en Arakan (Birmanie)
En s’appuyant sur plusieurs enquêtes de terrain réalisées dans la région arakanaise de Thandwe, en Birmanie, cet article explore la pluralité médicamenteuse existante et la place importante qu’elle revêt – via l’automédication – dans les itinéraires thérapeutiques des malades. L’objectif principal est de montrer comment les choix thérapeutiques effectués par les individus – entre différents produits, entre automédication et recours à des spéciali…
The Authority of Influence. Women and Power in Burmese History, Jessica Harriden
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, un nombre croissant de spécialistes, y compris des historiens, s’est intéressé à la place occupée par les femmes dans les sociétés du Sud-Est asiatique. Tout en s’inscrivant dans cette lignée, Jessica Harriden se veut fortement novatrice : son ouvrage est de fait le premier à explorer le rapport entre genre et pouvoir dans l’histoire birmane depuis l’époque précoloniale jusqu’à aujourd’hui. En s’appuyant sur…
Du karma aux planètes
En Arakan, les conceptions de la maladie et les pratiques thérapeutiques relevant du bouddhisme theravāda, de l’astrologie, du culte des esprits, de la médecine et de bien d’autres domaines forment un ensemble signifiant et hiérarchisé. Ensemble signifiant parce que malades et thérapeutes considèrent ces conceptions et pratiques comme indissociables les unes des autres et devant donc être combinées afin de mener à bien le processus de guérison. E…
Myanmar Traditional Medicine
In the aftermath of independence, obtained in 1948, the Burmese government launched a project to valorize and promote traditional medicine which comprised the institutionalization and standardization of the teaching, practice, and production of medicines. The government justified this project by asserting the importance of protecting and improving-in terms of both quality and accessibility-this precious national heritage. Having contributed to th…
Healing the whole
Based on fieldwork conducted among the Buddhist population living in Rakhine State, Myanmar, between 2005 and 2011, this article elucidates how people deal with health and illness and related uncertainties by relying on a multiplicity of conceptions and practices associated with Buddhism, astrology, spirit cults, as well as indigenous and Western medicine. This article unpacks this plurality to show how different components contribute to the heal…
The Healing Power of the Gift Healing Services and Remuneration in Rakhine (Western Myanmar)
Based on data that have been collected during several field trips to Rakhine State, this article describes the way the movements of services and goods in the healing sector take place and are interpreted by local people and outlines the factors underlying these performances and interpretations and their meaning with regard the healing process itself. Although from an etic point of view, most transfers that take place in the healing sector represe…
Du karma aux planètes
En Arakan, les conceptions de la maladie et les pratiques thérapeutiques relevant du bouddhisme theravāda, de l’astrologie, du culte des esprits, de la médecine et de bien d’autres domaines forment un ensemble signifiant et hiérarchisé. Ensemble signifiant parce que malades et thérapeutes considèrent ces conceptions et pratiques comme indissociables les unes des autres et devant donc être combinées afin de mener à bien le processus de guérison. E…
The Authority of Influence. Women and Power in Burmese History, Jessica Harriden
Au cours des deux dernières décennies, un nombre croissant de spécialistes, y compris des historiens, s’est intéressé à la place occupée par les femmes dans les sociétés du Sud-Est asiatique. Tout en s’inscrivant dans cette lignée, Jessica Harriden se veut fortement novatrice : son ouvrage est de fait le premier à explorer le rapport entre genre et pouvoir dans l’histoire birmane depuis l’époque précoloniale jusqu’à aujourd’hui. En s’appuyant sur…
Kyanmabase, « Bonne santé à vous ! ». Logiques et pratiques d’automédication en Arakan (Birmanie)
En s’appuyant sur plusieurs enquêtes de terrain réalisées dans la région arakanaise de Thandwe, en Birmanie, cet article explore la pluralité médicamenteuse existante et la place importante qu’elle revêt – via l’automédication – dans les itinéraires thérapeutiques des malades. L’objectif principal est de montrer comment les choix thérapeutiques effectués par les individus – entre différents produits, entre automédication et recours à des spéciali…
Coping with health-related uncertainties and risks in Rakhine (Myanmar)
In this article, I use an anthropological perspective to investigate how uncertainty and risk related to health are understood and managed by members of the Buddhist population living in the central part of Rakhine State, in Western Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), in a context of therapeutic pluralism and of a highly lacking formal health system. Drawing on data from six fieldwork trips, which I undertook between 2005 and 2014 in the Thandwe a…
The Healing Power of the Gift Healing Services and Remuneration in Rakhine (Western Myanmar)
Based on data that have been collected during several field trips to Rakhine State, this article describes the way the movements of services and goods in the healing sector take place and are interpreted by local people and outlines the factors underlying these performances and interpretations and their meaning with regard the healing process itself. Although from an etic point of view, most transfers that take place in the healing sector represe…
The Buddhist Grammar of Healing
In Rakhine State, like elsewhere in Myanmar and in the region, many healers combine the knowledge and skills of both the herbalist and the exorcist, each resulting from the blending of several medical traditions that have spread across the region and mixed with indigenous belief systems. Within this assemblage, both the efficacy of the remedies, as well as that of the healer, derive from compounds of different sources—tangible and intangible, vis…
Health
This chapter describes reforms of the health care system and the way they were implemented in order to assess what was new in these reforms and what was not, what improvement they brought, what were their weaknesses and whether or not they are progressing in the direction initially planned. It provides the contextualisation before turning to outline the reforms themselves. The chapter also describes how they are affecting the country overall but …
Drugs’ Life
Based on the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Rakhine State (Western Myanmar), this article aims to define the local accessibility of biomedical drugs and the use people make of them. Following the ‘biographical’ approach developed by Van der Geest and his colleagues (1989, 1996, 2002), the article shows how the appropriation by local people of biomedical drugs is very much determined by the social, cultural and economic reality in which peopl…
Circulation and Governance of Asian Medicine
Immortal Medicine
The institutionalization of indigenous medicine in contemporary Myanmar (Burma) placed alchemy at the margins of the formal health system. The practice, however, remains very much alive. Here, I explore the resilience of alchemic medicine by unraveling the relationship between this practice and the social space within which it operates. I show that the negotiation of a space for resilience comes from the gray areas created by the weak regulatory …
Gold Ash
Gold ash' (shway pya), a substance Burmese alchemists produce through a complex process of the combination and burning of metals, is considered by many Burmese as the most potent medical ingredient existing in the country. In this article, I explore the factors underpinning its exceptional potency. Grounding my analysis on ethnography conducted in Myanmar since 2004, and more specifically on the case study of Master U Shein (1926-2014), the most …
Healing the whole
Based on fieldwork conducted among the Buddhist population living in Rakhine State, Myanmar, between 2005 and 2011, this article elucidates how people deal with health and illness and related uncertainties by relying on a multiplicity of conceptions and practices associated with Buddhism, astrology, spirit cults, as well as indigenous and Western medicine. This article unpacks this plurality to show how different components contribute to the heal…
Myanmar Traditional Medicine
In the aftermath of independence, obtained in 1948, the Burmese government launched a project to valorize and promote traditional medicine which comprised the institutionalization and standardization of the teaching, practice, and production of medicines. The government justified this project by asserting the importance of protecting and improving-in terms of both quality and accessibility-this precious national heritage. Having contributed to th…
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