The Paper Road: Archive and Experience in the Botanical by Erik Mueggler

By Erik Mueggler

This exhilarating booklet interweaves the tales of 2 early twentieth-century botanists to discover the collaborative relationships every one shaped with Yunnan villagers in amassing botanical specimens from the borderlands among China, Tibet, and Burma. Erik Mueggler introduces Scottish botanist George Forrest, who hired Naxi adventurers in his fieldwork from 1906 till his loss of life in 1932. We additionally meet American Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who, in 1924, undertook a deadly day trip to Gansu and Tibet with the sons and nephews of Forrest’s employees. Mueggler describes how the Naxi employees and their Western employers rendered the earth into specimens, notes, maps, diaries, letters, books, pictures, and formality manuscripts. Drawing on an old metaphor of the earth as a publication, Mueggler presents a sustained meditation on what may be copied, translated, and revised and what should be folded again into the earth.

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