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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 21 January 1999
- ISBN 9789004109834
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 711 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Camphor - origin, distribution, disposal, use - is here examined in the wider context of Old World aromata. Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history. Fifteen original maps, twenty-eight other illustrations, and extensive bibliography.
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In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted among the most prominent items of long-distance trade. The finest camphor came from Malaya, Borneo and Sumatra, but long-distance trade took it to societies at the geographical poles of demand - China and the medieval West already in late Antiquity (ca. 6th century A.D.). In India it was in use at an even much earlier period.
The present monograph opens with a survey of aromata generally - origins, time and place of demand - from the Ancient Civilizations to the Age of Discoveries. Chapter two concerns the natural history of camphor; subsequent chapters are organized by regions (India, Western Asia, the medieval West, South East Asia, China and Japan), with a postscript on Origins and Diffusion.
Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history.The work includes 15 original maps, 28 illustrations, and an extensive bibliography.
'...an extremely valuable account with an encyclopaedic character?it will become a standard reference work for many scholars and is likely to stimulate our appetite for more scholarly works of this type - "commodity studies" on "little things" which many "theory-driven" historians have tended to ignore during the last two decades.'
Roderich Ptak, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.
'...Donkin's book is very useful for those who are interested in historical medicine, incenses, and perfumery. It also deals with cross-cultural trade appropriately.'
Chén Kuo-Tung, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 2001.
'...this book is of very great interest, and will be essential reference material for anyone concerned with trade and cultural exchange in the ancient world.'
Claude Guillot, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 2001.
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Camphor - origin, distribution, disposal, use - is here examined in the wider context of Old World aromata. Evidence is drawn from an extensive range of sources in natural and cultural history. Fifteen original maps, twenty-eight other illustrations, and extensive bibliography.
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Dragon?s Brain Perfume: An Historical Geography of Camphor
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