TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farquhar,Judith
AU  - Lai,Lili
TI  - Gathering medicines: nation and knowledge in China's Mountain South 
SN  - 9780226763514
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Medicine, Chinese
KW  - China, Southeast
KW  - Medicinal plants
KW  - Healers
KW  - Zhuang (Chinese people)
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Yao (Southeast Asian people)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Institution -- Knowledge -- Bodies -- Plants -- Encounters -- Conclusions, and then some
N2  - "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"--
ER  -