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eBook
The paper road
2011
Overview
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.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ Botanists -- Scotland -- Biography
/ Botanists -- United States -- Biography
/ Botany
/ Botany -- Fieldwork -- China -- Gansu Sheng -- History -- 20th century
/ Botany -- Fieldwork -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- History -- 20th century
/ Botany -- Fieldwork -- China -- Yunnan Sheng -- History -- 20th century
/ China
/ Cultural
/ Forrest, George, 1873-1932 -- Travel
/ Gansu Sheng (China) -- Description and travel
/ History
/ Rock, Joseph Francis Charles
/ Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962 -- Travel
/ Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884–1962
/ SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany
/ Scotland
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
/ Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
/ Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Description and travel
/ Travel
ISBN
9780520269033, 9780520269026, 0520269020, 0520269039, 9780520950498, 0520950496
