Mixing medicines :: ecologies of care in Buddhist Siberia /

Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine's attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of...

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Main Author: Chudakova, Tatiana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Thinking from elsewhere.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Mixing Medicines is an ethnography of Russian medicine's attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
ISBN:9780823294336
0823294331
9780823294329
0823294323
9780823297481
0823297489

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