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 unti...
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.
Erik Mueggler is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He was a 2002 winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius award.
目录
· · · · · ·
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part I
1. The Eyes of Others
· · · · · ·
(更多)
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
· · · · · · (收起)
原文摘录
· · · · · ·
Two landscapes merged in this project. Both were made of earth and paper, layered together in distinctive ways. One emerged out of an interleaving of plant specimens and their paper wrappings, visions of the earth and their paper descriptions. The processes that wrapped paper and earth together were about scientific taxonomy and the disintegration of taxonomy; there were about immanent beauty and searching for transcendent sublimity. They were guided by very specific rules: about how to distinguish species, how to describe plants with precision, how to identify the limits of representation, how to think and feel about visions that seemed to transgress those limits. As this interleaving of earth and paper grew more dense, it developed an orienting horizon, an imagined place where the beauty... (查看原文)
He was making an equation, simple enough: experience becomes archive; archive orders experience. Perception makes the earth into paper; paper makes the earth social. He wanted his pen, his camera, his compass, to be conduits for this simple reciprocal exchange, nothing more. As he walked further into Yunnan, the chaotic sociality of flowing excreta, crossed gazes, and heterogeneous voices exploded about him. He found a way to use this exchange to remake the earth as a stage, a geometric reordering of social experience. He joined his pen and camera to his gramophone, creating lines of force to redirect gazes and voices, compelling them into a one-to-one correspondence with his own gaze -- into the same reciprocal exchange toward which he had been working all along.
I argued that, faced wi... (查看原文)
埃里克·缪格勒 作者
1 有用 Doraemon 2024-01-15 00:33:18 云南
😵快马加鞭赶完了作业……为什么要选这本书，还好我脸皮（xueyang）厚……
1 有用 虎湖不归 2023-03-09 15:45:04 北京
怎么能没有满分呢！
1 有用 Siqi 2022-11-04 01:57:33 广东
可以作课外读物
7 有用 远远飞 2013-02-15 14:16:45
不只是醍醐灌顶而且还感人肺腑。完美践行了Kroeber的那句名言：Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
2 有用 纪恩同学 2014-04-23 08:51:45
Erik Mueggler好像很不喜欢写结论。。