Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 448 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2019 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9781350988040
Content:
"In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in ancient times. He does so by tracing the history of cultivated plants, drugs, products, minerals, metals, precious stones and textiles, in their migration from Persia to China and from China to Persia. Walnut, peach, apricot and olive, as well as more exotic products like jasmine, henna, indigo, lapis lazuli, amber, coral, gold, ebony, zinc and myrrh are all included. Few other publications provide so much informative detail about the way human activity has modified the natural world through the movement of plants and other natural resource products from one historical civilisation to another. The work also offers important detail on Iran for periods when Iranian sources are slim. Introduced by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, this classic work is once more available for all scholars of Iran, China and cultural exchange."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Content:
CONTENTS -- New Introduction by Brian Spooner -- Introduction -- Sino-Iranica -- Alfalfa -- The Grape-Vine -- The Pistachio -- The Walnut -- The Pomegranate -- Sesame and Flax -- The Coriander -- The Cucumber -- Chive, Onion, and Shallot -- Garden Pea and Broad Bean -- Saffron and Turmeric -- Safflower Jasmine -- Henna -- The Balsam-Poplar -- Manna -- Asafoetida -- Galbanum -- Oak-Galls -- Indigo -- Rice -- Pepper -- Sugar -- Myrobalan -- The 'Gold Peach' -- Fu-tse -- Brassica -- Cummin -- The Date-Palm -- The Spinach -- Sugar Beet and Lettuce -- Ricinus -- The Almond -- The Fig -- The Olive -- Cassia Pods and Carob -- Narcissus -- The Balm of Gilead -- Note on the Language of Fu-lin -- The Water-Melon -- Fenugreek -- Nux-Vomica -- The Carrot -- Aromatics -- Spikenard-Storax-Myrrh-Putchuck-Styrax benjoin -- The Malayan Po-se and Its Products -- Alum-Lac-Camphor-Aloes-Amomum- P, o-lo-te-Psoralea-Ebony -- Persian Textiles -- Brocades-Rugs-Yue no-Woolen Stuffs-Asbestos -- Iranian Minerals, Metals, and Precious Stones -- Borax-Sal Ammoniac-Litharge-Gold-Oxides of Copper-Colored SaltZinc--Steel- -- Se-se-Emerald-Turquois-Lapis Lazuli-Diamond-Amber-Coral-Bezoar -- Titles of the Sasanian Government 529 -- Irano-Sinica -- The Square Bambo-Silk-Peach and Apricot-Cinnamon-Zedoary-Ginger-Mamiran-Rhubarb- -- Salsola-Emblic Myrobalan-Althaea-Rose of China-Mango-Sandal-Birch-Tea-Onyx-Tootnague-Saltpetre-Kaolin-Smilax pseudochina-Rag-paper-Paper Money-Chinese Loan-Words in Persian-The Chinese in the Alexander Romance -- Appendix I Iranian Elements in Mongol -- Appendix II Chinese Elements in Turki -- Appendix III The Indian Elements in the Persian Pharmacology -- of Abu Mansur Muwaffaq -- Appendix IV The Basil -- Appendix V Additional Notes on Loan-Words in Tibetan -- General Index.-- Botanical Index.-- Index.of Words.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781784532017
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350988040
