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The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / / Erik Mueggler



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Autore: Mueggler Erik <1962-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The paper road : archive and experience in the botanical exploration of West China and Tibet / / Erik Mueggler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
Disciplina: 580.92/2
Soggetto topico: Botany - Fieldwork - China - Yunnan Sheng - History - 20th century
Botany - Fieldwork - China - Gansu Sheng - History - 20th century
Botany - Fieldwork - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - History - 20th century
Botanists - Scotland
Botanists - United States
Soggetto geografico: Yunnan Sheng (China) Description and travel
Gansu Sheng (China) Description and travel
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Description and travel
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Part I -- Part II -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The Paper Road  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-29188-6
9786613291882
0-520-95049-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820082503321
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