Book ID: CBB861019370

Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (2021)

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Farquhar, Judith (Author)
Lai, Lili (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 304
Language: English

In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation’s registered minorities to “salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate” folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic traditions of southern China.   Over a period of six years, Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai worked with seven minority nationality groups in China’s southern mountains, observing how medicines were gathered and local healing systems codified. Gathering Medicines shares their intimate view of how people understand ethnicity, locality, the body, and nature. This ethnography of knowledge diversities in multiethnic China 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.

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Authors & Contributors
Farquhar, Judith
Jihee Choi
Y. Srinivasa Rao
Sindhu Thomas
Ortiz Lobo, Alberto
Dae-Gi Kim
Concepts
Medicine, Chinese traditional
Medicine and society
East Asia, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Medicine, traditional
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
19th century
Edo period (Japan, 1603-1868)
Places
China
United States
Japan
Italy
Vietnam
Tibet
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