Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.
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.
發表於2024-05-21
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圖書標籤: 人類學 西南 海外中國研究 曆史 植物學 Anthropology 人類學與曆史 Mueggler
2016.10 Erik Mueggler實在是大神,太喜歡這本書瞭!
評分身體,經驗,檔案,記憶,地景……層纍交織
評分真誠而憂傷。
評分雲山霧罩,卻又在細節裏通透,浸透瞭情感,單這些情感的成分,就足以使其成為最優秀的人類學作品,這不是一般作者能夠處理的。
評分文筆太好瞭:腳下的景觀和文檔裏的景觀;文獻記錄與個人經驗;text and history
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