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Presented by the Department of Cultural Anthropology
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Love of Plants: Comparative Botany and Local
Worlds of Healing
Monday, February 15, 2016 1:30pm
Friedl Building, Room 225
Herbalist healers in Southwest China talk enthusiastically about climbing into the
mountains to gather medicinal plants. Their love of local herbal medicines has much in common with botanizing in history and in many parts of the world. This talk considers love of plants as both a global and a local phenomenon and as an occasion for sometimes conflictual encounters
in China.
Judith Farquhar is Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her previous work has focused on traditional medicine and everyday health in
China. She is currently co-authoring, with Lili Lai of Peking University, a book tentatively
entitled Gathering Medicines in the Mountains: Nation, Body, and Knowledge in
China’s Ethnic South.
Lili Lai is an Associate Professor in Anthropology in the Institute of Medical
Humanities at Peking University. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology
from UNC-CH in 2009.
A lecture by Judith Farquhar & Lili Lai