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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.
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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