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The Paper Road

The Paper Road
作者:Erik Mueggler
副标题:Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of West China and Tibet
出版社:University of California Press
出版年:2011-11
ISBN:9780520269033
行业:其它
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内容简介

This interesting 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. Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who employed native ethnic 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.

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作者简介

Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.

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目录

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part I

1. The Eyes of Others

2. Farmers and Kings

3. The Paper Road

4. The Golden Mountain Gate

Part II

5. Bodies Real and Virtual

6. Lost Worlds

7. The Mountain

8. Adventurers

9. The Book of the Earth

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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