Exchanges and Transformations in Gendered Medicine on the Maritime Silk Road: Evidence from the Thirteenth-Century Java Sea Wreck

Respess, Amanda; Niziolek, Lisa C.

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“…[58][59][60][61] Traditional knowledge of the natural environment, particularly the understanding of plant-based medicines, continues to flourish in urban people in Indonesia. 11 Approximately 23.25% of participants used phytomedicine on a frequency exceeding four times per month, while 67.25% were found to possess a certain level of familiarity with conventional species. 62 A study found that the local community at Kabanjahe Market in North Sumatra used 345 different species as ingredients for traditional medicine.…”

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“…Furthermore, Java Island, and specifically the port cities located on the north coast (pasisir), has been the source of rice and other foodstuff necessary for long voyages while serving as the distribution point for spices grown in the eastern islands. [10][11][12] The presence of many trade delegations and traders hosted in the port and the royal cities created a unique cosmopolitan urban environment. 13 A common practice during the lengthy stopover periods, which could last from 3 to 6 months and inherent to the monsoon trading system, was to settle down in the cities and become married into the local populace.…”

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“…24,25 Medicinal plants (phytomedicine) are considered significantly essential by peranakan people due to the extensive history of traditional medicine among the three main minority ethnic groups in Surakarta, namely Indians, Arabs, and Chinese. [10][11][12] Each phytomedicinal tradition is based upon the local environment and regional characteristics, such as the Mediterranean ecosystem of the levant, the alpine ecosystem of the Himalayas, the tropical forests of southern India, and the subtropical evergreen ecosystem of southern China. 26 Due to the urban nature of peranakan, the current phytopharmacological usage of these medical plants is no longer limited to the various ethnic groups.…”

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Exploring Urban Ethnobotany: A Case Study of Medicinal Plants Traded in Gede Hardjonagoro Market, Surakarta, Indonesia

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The former royal city of Surakarta, Indonesia, is renowned for a uniquely cosmopolitan culture, blending high Javanese traditions with various peranakan (mixed ethnicity). This unique cultural fusion has facilitated the exchange of knowledge, particularly in relation to usage of various plants as phytomedicine by the urban populace. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the variety, utility, and phytogeography of phytomedicine available at Gede Hardjonagoro Market (Pasar Gede), the main market of Surakarta and Greater Solo Area (GSA). An ethnobotanical approach was used combining semi-structured interviews, participative observation, and documentation. The utility of plants was assessed through a descriptive and quantitative approach, using Use Value (UV) and Fidelity Level (FL) metrics. The results showed that a total of 76 species were found from 39 families of medicinal plants currently on sale in Pasar Gede. Zingiber officinale Roscoe had the highest UV, while 7 species had the highest FL (100%) including Elephantopus scaber for hepatitis, Sonchus arvensis for urolithiasis, and Gynura pseudochina for mastitis. Furthermore, Caesalpinia sappan was for pruritis, Myristica fragrans and Piper cubeba for diarrhea, as well as Curcuma heynaena for helminthiasis. Most species were native to Indomalayan realm (50 species), divided into Indochinese (21 species), Indian (12 species), Sunda Shelf (9 species), and others (8 species), with only 8 species found on Java Island. The results implied that trade routes and cultural exchange among peranakan ethnic group had contributed to the diversity of medicinal plants in Surakarta.

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“…The procurement of these animal resources has always depended on providers. They have been sustained through dynamic and sometimes prosperous trade practices, such as the ivory imported from the Swahili coast to the Chinese shore (Respess and Niziolek 2016 ).…”

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Feral pharmaceuticalization—Biomedical uses of animal life in light of the global donkey hide trade

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2023

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Medical and pharmaceutical uses of animal life have gone through vast changes in the past centuries. Although the commodification of animals and animal parts is by no means an invention of modernity, its procedures and practices have evolved in multiple ways across time. Most notably, the exploitation of non-human animal life has been increasingly segmented, industrialized, and globalized. The collateral expansion of scientific and market institutions has led to specific modes of rationalization of animal breeding, culture, and trade for pharmaceutical purposes. However, this rationalization process has never been immune to its own matter—and the materiality of non-human commodification processes irrigates seemingly ordered and layered practices. Based upon a study on the international trade of donkey hide, this paper offers a characterization of the current pharmaceutical uses of animal life through a series of epistemic and environmental tensions expressing frictions between the market’s absorptive logic and non-human modes of existence. We describe this set of tensions as ‘feral pharmaceuticalization’ and contend that they offer new perspectives on the analysis of the contemporary pharmaceuticalization process. In addition, such tensions showcase the importance of investigating the expansion of technological markets not only as simultaneous knowledge and milieux (or bodies) making, or as simple science and market hegemonic processes, but also as the construction of new stages of conflict.

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Exchanges and Transformations in Gendered Medicine on the Maritime Silk Road: Evidence from the Thirteenth-Century Java Sea Wreck

Cited by 2 publications

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Exploring Urban Ethnobotany: A Case Study of Medicinal Plants Traded in Gede Hardjonagoro Market, Surakarta, Indonesia

Exploring Urban Ethnobotany: A Case Study of Medicinal Plants Traded in Gede Hardjonagoro Market, Surakarta, Indonesia

Feral pharmaceuticalization—Biomedical uses of animal life in light of the global donkey hide trade

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