The Multispecies Sociality of Digestion and the Microbiopolitics of the Belly Among Somalis in Ethiopia.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Epub Date: 2024-01-19 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2023.2293113

Lauren Carruth

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Abstract

Management of what Somalis call "dacar" - translated as digestive bile, bitterness, aloe, and masses of tiny beings in the gut - is key to popular health cultures and ethnophysiologies in eastern Ethiopia. Managing bodily dacar requires cultivating multispecies sociality and flows of life between humans, vegetation that nourishes livestock, and animals that produce milk consumed for therapeutic and nutritional properties. Transcending Western scientific conceptualizations of the "gut microbiome" and the instrumentalization of microbes to improve human health, Somalis' gut epistemologies and concept of dacar provide an ecological perspective on the co-constructed, mutable, and multispecies nature of digestion and life itself.

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埃塞俄比亚索马里人消化的多物种社会性和腹部的微生物政治学。

管理索马里人所谓的 "dacar"--译为消化胆汁、苦味、芦荟和肠道中的大量小生物--是埃塞俄比亚东部流行的健康文化和民族生理学的关键。管理体内的 dacar 需要培养多物种的社会性，以及人类、滋养牲畜的植被和因治疗和营养作用而产奶的动物之间的生命流动。索马里人的肠道认识论和 dacar 概念超越了西方科学对 "肠道微生物组 "的概念化和利用微生物改善人类健康的做法，为消化和生命本身的共建、易变和多物种性质提供了一个生态学视角。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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