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Gathering medicines : Nation and knowledge in China's Mountain South
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ISBN: 9780226763514 022676351X 9780226763651 022676365X Year: 2021 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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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"--


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Letters without capitals : text and practice in Kim Mun (Yao) culture
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ISBN: 9004444483 9004442219 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill,

Other Chinas : the Yao and the politics of national belonging
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ISBN: 082232525X 0822325497 Year: 2000 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,

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