Gathering medicines: nation and knowledge in China's Mountain South

"The central government of China recently called for all of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of Traditional Chin...

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Main Authors: Farquhar, Judith 1946- (Author), Lai, Lili (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press 2021
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Summary:"The central government of China recently called for all of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of systematization while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic traditions of Southern China. Over a period of six years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai went up into the mountains to work with seven minority nationality groups, observing how medicines were gathered and local systems of knowledge codified. A testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, this collaborative ethnography theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the authority of the wild"--
Item Description:2103
Physical Description:xiv, 281 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9780226763514
022676351X
9780226763651
022676365X

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