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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Mueggler, Erik (1962-....)
Titre(s) : The paper road [Texte imprimé] : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / Erik Mueggler
Publication : Berkeley : University of California press, copyright 2011
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-361 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. 325-340
This exhilarating book interweaves the stories of two early twentieth-century botanists
to explore the collaborative relationships each formed with Yunnan villagers in gathering
botanical specimens from the borderlands between China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler
introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed Naxi adventurers in his
fieldwork from 1906 until his death in 1932. We also meet American Joseph Francis
Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a dangerous expedition to Gansu and Tibet with
the sons and nephews of Forrest's workers. Mueggler describes how the Naxi workers
and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries,
letters, books, photographs, and ritual manuscripts. Drawing on an ancient metaphor
of the earth as a book, Mueggler provides a sustained meditation on what can be copied,
translated, and revised and what can be folded back into the earth. Erik Mueggler
is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Publisher's note
Sujet(s) : Forrest, George (1873-1932)
Rock, Joseph Francis Charles (1884-1962)
Botanique -- Chine -- 20e siècle
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Indice(s) Dewey :
580.951 09 (23e éd.) = Botanique - Chine - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780520269026. - ISBN 0520269020 (rel.). - ISBN 9780520269033. - ISBN 0520269039
(br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465337473
Notice n° :
FRBNF46533747
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : pt. 1. The eyes of others ; Farmers and kings ; The paper road ; The golden mountain
gate ; pt. 2. Bodies real and virtual ; Lost worlds ; The mountain ; Adventurers
; The book of the Earth.
