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Mixing Medicines - (Thinking from Elsewhere) by Tatiana Chudakova (Paperback)

Mixing Medicines - (Thinking from Elsewhere) by  Tatiana Chudakova (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><i>Mixing Medicines</i> is an ethnography of Russian medicine's attempts to recuperate indigenous therapeutic traditions associated with the state's ethnic and religious minorities. Based in Buryatia, a traditionally Buddhist region in southeastern Siberia, the book traces the uneven terrains of encounter between indigenous healing, the state, and transnational medical flows.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today's Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pains and vanishing Soviet modes of life. <i>Mixing Medicines</i> seeks to reconsider these logics of emptiness and replenishment. Set in Buryatia, a semi-autonomous indigenous republic in Southeastern Siberia, the book offers an ethnography of the institutionalization of Tibetan medicine, a botanically-based therapeutic practice framed as at once foreign, international, and local to Russia's Buddhist regions. <p/>By highlighting the cosmopolitan nature of Tibetan medicine and the culturally specific origins of biomedicine, the book shows how people in Buryatia trouble entrenched center-periphery models, complicating narratives about isolation and political marginality. Chudakova argues that a therapeutic life mediated through the practices of traditional medicines is not a last-resort response to sociopolitical abandonment but depends on a densely collective mingling of human and non-human worlds that produces new senses of rootedness, while reshaping regional and national conversations about care, history, and belonging.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"Tatiana Chudakova has given us a graceful ethnographic account that speaks to broad concerns within medical anthropology: the politics of 'integrative' medicine, the limitations of concepts such as 'medical pluralism, ' the relationship between religion and science as they cross various political and ideological domains, and the condition of post-socialism as a lived and embodied experience. <i>Mixing Medicines</i> is a remarkable contribution to Tibetan Studies and to anthropologies of post-socialist societies."--Sienna R. Craig, Dartmouth College <p/>"<i>Mixing Medicines</i> delves into the misunderstood and deeply Orientalized practice of Tibetan medicine. In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Tatiana Chudakova shows the elusiveness of Tibetan medicine as Siberia's Buryat minority seeks to maintain the practice's integrity and their status as a unique group while also striving to be a part of the Russian nation. Carefully researched and meticulously argued, <i>Mixing Medicines</i> offers a nuanced case for the intimate ties between today's Russia and Inner Asia."--Manduhai Buyandelger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology <p/>Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today's Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pains and vanishing Soviet modes of life. <i>Mixing Medicines</i> seeks to reconsider these logics of emptiness and replenishment. Set in Buryatia, a semi-autonomous indigenous republic in Southeastern Siberia, the book offers an ethnography of the institutionalization of Tibetan medicine, a botanically-based therapeutic practice framed as at once foreign, international, and local to Russia's Buddhist regions. <p/>By highlighting the cosmopolitan nature of Tibetan medicine and the culturally specific origins of biomedicine, the book shows how people in Buryatia trouble entrenched center-periphery models, complicating narratives about isolation and political marginality. Chudakova argues that a therapeutic life mediated through the practices of traditional medicines is not a last-resort response to sociopolitical abandonment but depends on a densely collective mingling of human and non-human worlds that produces new senses of rootedness, while reshaping regional and national conversations about care, history, and belonging. <p/><b>Tatiana Chudakova</b> is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Mixing Medicines</i> delves into the misunderstood and deeply Orientalized practice of Tibetan medicine. In this insightful and well-written ethnography, Tatiana Chudakova shows the elusiveness of Tibetan medicine as Siberia's Buryat minority seeks to maintain the practice's integrity and their status as a unique group while also striving to be a part of the Russian nation. Carefully researched and meticulously argued, <i>Mixing Medicines</i> offers a nuanced case for the intimate ties between today's Russia and Inner Asia."<b>---Manduhai Buyandelger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, <i></i></b><br><br>"Tatiana Chudakova has given us a graceful ethnographic account that speaks to broad concerns within medical anthropology: the politics of 'integrative' medicine, the limitations of concepts such as 'medical pluralism, ' the relationship between religion and science as they cross various political and ideological domains, and the condition of post-socialism as a lived and embodied experience. <i>Mixing Medicines</i> is a remarkable contribution to Tibetan Studies and to anthropologies of post-socialist societies."<b>---Sienna R. Craig, Dartmouth College, <i></i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Tatiana Chudakova</b> is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. Her work has appeared in <i>American Ethnologist</i>, <i>Medical Anthropology Quarterly</i>, and <i>Comparative Studies in Society and History</i>. She is the recipient of the General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship (2018).

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