Gathering medicines : nation and knowledge in China's Mountain South /
Farquhar, Judith,
Gathering medicines : nation and knowledge in China's Mountain South / Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai. - xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Institution -- Knowledge -- Bodies -- Plants -- Encounters -- Conclusions, and then some...
"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"--
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2020038864
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020139627 Uk
Medicine, Chinese--China, Southeast.
Medicinal plants--China, Southeast.
Healers--China, Southeast.
Zhuang (Chinese people)--Medicine.
Yao (Southeast Asian people)--Medicine.
Gathering medicines : nation and knowledge in China's Mountain South / Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai. - xiv, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Institution -- Knowledge -- Bodies -- Plants -- Encounters -- Conclusions, and then some...
"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"--
9780226763514 022676351X 9780226763651 022676365X
2020038864
GBC145574 bnb
020139627 Uk
Medicine, Chinese--China, Southeast.
Medicinal plants--China, Southeast.
Healers--China, Southeast.
Zhuang (Chinese people)--Medicine.
Yao (Southeast Asian people)--Medicine.