Author: Berthold Laufer
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Author: Berthold Laufer
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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.

Author: Berthold Laufer
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Sino-Iranica: Chinese Contributions To The History Of Civilization In Ancient Iran, With Special Reference To The History Of Cultivated Plants And Products; Volume 15, Issue 3 Of Fieldiana: Anthropology; Publication (Field Museum Of Natural History: 1909).: Anthropological Series; Sino-Iranica: Chinese Contributions To The History Of Civilization In Ancient Iran, With Special Reference To The History Of Cultivated Plants And Products; Volume 15, Issue 3 Of Publication: Anthropological Series; Field Museum Of Natural History Berthold Laufer Field Museum of Natural History, 1919 History; Middle East; General; Anthropology; Botany; China; History / Middle East / General; Indians of North America; Iran; Names, Chinese; Names, Iranian; Science / Life Sciences / Botany; Social Science / Anthropology / General

Author: Berthold Laufer
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Author: Berthold Laufer
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Author: Berthold Laufer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838609083
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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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.

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Author: Berthold Laufer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333652890
Category : Foreign Language Study
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Pages : 458

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Excerpt from Sino-Iranica: Chinese Contributions to the History of Civilization in Ancient Iran; With Special Reference to the History of Cultivated Plants and Products The following pages represent Chinese contributions to the history of civilization in Iran, which aptly fill a lacune in our knowledge of Iranian tradition. Chinese records dealing with the history of Iranian peoples also contain numerous transcriptions Of ancient Iranian words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Author: Berthold Laufer
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230466613
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... in a cultivated state, and does not even succeed well, the fruit being mediocre and acid.1 There is no ancient Sanskrit name for the tree; nor does it play any rdle in the folk-lore of India, as it does in China. Further, as regards the time of the introduction, whether the reign of Kaniska be placed in the first century before or after our era, it is singularly synchronous with the transplantation of the tree into western Asia. 5. As indicated by the Persian name dar-llni or dar-iin ("Chinese wood" or "bark"; Arabic dar fini), cinnamon was obtained by the Persians and Arabs from China.2 Ibn Khordadzbeh, who wrote between A.d. 844 and 848, is the first Arabic author who enumerates cinnamon among the products exported from China.3 The Chinese export cannot have assumed large dimensions: it is not alluded to in Chinese records, Cao 2u-kwa is reticent about it.4 Ceylon was always the main seat of cinnamon production, and the tree (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) is a native of the Ceylon forests.6 The bark of this tree is also called dar-clm. It is well known that cassia and cinnamon are mentioned by classical authors, and have given rise to many sensational speculations as to the origin of the cinnamon of the ancients. Herodotus6 places cinnamon in Arabia, and tells a wondrous story as to how it is gathered. Theophrastus7 seeks the home of cassia and cinnamomum, together with frankincense and myrrh, in the Arabian peninsula about Saba, Hadramyt, Kitibaina, and Mamali. Strabo3 locates it in the land of the Sabaeans, in Arabia, also in Ethiopia and southern India; finally he has a "cinnamon-bearing country" at the end of the habitable countries of the south, on the shore of the Indian ocean.9 Pliny10has cinnamomum or cinnamum grow in the country of...