Mixing MedicinesTraditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in todays 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. Mixing Medicines 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