南京大学人文社会科学高级研究院

学术前沿讲座第 317期

题目：  扑杀、疫苗接种与疫情监测：动物疾病谱系和社会人类学

 Stamping out, Vaccinating, and Monitoring Contagious Animals :

 a Genealogy of Animal Diseases and Social Anthropology

讲座人：法国国家科学研究中心人类学科研部主任、

     法国高等社会科学研究院博士生导师

     Frederic KECK        

主持人：南京大学社会学院人类学研究所  范可教授

时间：2018年5月29日（周二）下午14:00-16:00

地点：仙林校区邵逸夫楼（国际学院）C308高研院报告厅

备注：英语演讲

讲座提要：

      Stamping out, vaccinating and monitoring animals are the three main techniques used by contemporary veterinary public health to manage animal diseases which can transmit to humans. They assume different ontologies of microbes as invisible beings emerging in relations between humans and animals and signaling their transformations. Therefore, animal diseases are not only a question for an applied anthropology, but they involve the theoretical core of the discipline, that is, the ontology of collective beings emerging out of interactions. What we would call a biosecurity intervention today was justified in the last two centuries as a way to produce “society”, but this notion has become problematic to understand the emergence and proliferation of new pathogens in animal reservoirs. Different techniques of treatment for animal diseases involve different views of animals, often conflicting between public health administrations and animal breeders. Rationalities of risks involve different ontologies of the social when they concern relations between humans and animals.