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 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"--

About the author

Judith Farquhar is professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of several books, including A Way of Life: Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine and Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China.

Summary

Nation and Knowledge in Chinas Mountain South.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Farquhar, Judith Lai Farquhar, Farquhar Judith, Lili Lai, Lai Lili
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780226763651
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76365-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; 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