Gathering Medicines - Nation and Knowledge in Chinas Mountain South

Nation and Knowledge in Chinas Mountain South. An ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China, Gathering Medicines is a testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.

Summary

Nation and Knowledge in Chinas Mountain South. An ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China, Gathering Medicines is a testament to the rural wisdom of mountain healers, one that theorizes, from the ground up, the dynamic encounters between formal statist knowledge and the popular authority of the wild.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Farquhar, Judith Lai Farquhar, Farquhar Judith, Lili Lai, Lai Lili
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780226763514
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76351-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / China, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History