{"product_id":"mixing-medicines-tatiana-chudakova-9780823294305","title":"Mixing Medicines: Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditional 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. \u003ci\u003eMixing Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tatiana Chudakova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823294307\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823294305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Tatiana Chudakova","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990886383871,"sku":"9780823294305","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0a95713c-abc2-48a0-81b8-c3d3466eb22f.jpg?v=1683307246","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mixing-medicines-tatiana-chudakova-9780823294305","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}