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.
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对一个喜欢兴味盎然的科普故事的人来说,这种杂糅各种理论各种术语各种诠释的书真是浪费时间
评分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.
评分借用罗姆巴赫的一句话:“大地上的所有一切,必定是从它出发而产生的,对于大地所呈现的所有一切,它给予它们空间和状态、存在和时间”。
评分功夫了得,真功夫,煲佛跳墙的功夫。很少人能像他一样把一张旧相片和现象学扯上关系。
评分人类学家的想象力!
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