Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.
发表于2025-04-08
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图书标签: 人类学 西南 海外中国研究 历史 植物学 Anthropology 人类学与历史 Mueggler
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.
云山雾罩,却又在细节里通透,浸透了情感,单这些情感的成分,就足以使其成为最优秀的人类学作品,这不是一般作者能够处理的。
评分Erik Mueggler好像很不喜欢写结论。。
评分发现Rock竟然是我所走过的洛克线的洛克之后,才意识到那种我只经历了短短一周的那种“不属于任何一个世界的疏离无措”,贯穿了他的一生。喜欢民族志里无数意象的铺陈,笔触里蕴含着“某种无限的、深刻的、真实的东西”。
评分希望有一天,历史学者也会有人类学家的感受力。
评分Erik Mueggler好像很不喜欢写结论。。
The Paper Road 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书