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Gathering Medicines
Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South
Taschenbuch von Judith Farquhar (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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"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"--
"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"--
Über den Autor
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.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226763651
ISBN-10: 022676365X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Farquhar, Judith
Lai, Lili
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 228 x 151 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Judith Farquhar (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,436 kg
preigu-id: 119438274
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226763651
ISBN-10: 022676365X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Farquhar, Judith
Lai, Lili
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 228 x 151 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Judith Farquhar (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,436 kg
preigu-id: 119438274
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