Dragon's Brain Perfume : : An Historical Geography of Camphor / / R. A. Donkin.
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...
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Year of Publication: | 1999 |
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520 | |a 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. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- MAPS -- FIGURES -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Aromata -- Nature and Use -- Sources of Supply -- Time and Place of Demand -- Ancient and Classical Civilizations -- Jews and Arabs and Early Christians -- The Medieval West and the Age of Discoveries -- Chapter 2: Camphor -- Nature -- Extraction, Purification, Adulteration -- False Camphors -- Minor Sources of Camphor -- Major Sources of Camphor -- Dryobalanops aromatica -- Scientific Nomenclature -- Territorial Distributions -- Description and Ecology -- Timber -- Cinnamomum camphora -- Scientific Nomenclature -- Territorial Distributions -- Description and Ecology -- Record and Legend in China and Japan before ca. 1300 -- Local Expansion and Regional Destruction -- Distant Introductions and Cultivation -- Timber -- Blumea balsamifera -- Scientific Nomenclature -- Description, Territorial Distribution, Ecology -- Folk Nomenclature -- Camphor of Dryobalanops sp. and Cinnamomum sp. -- Euro-Indonesian Zone -- Sino-Japanese Zone -- Camphor of Blumea balsamifera -- Chapter 3: India -- Malabar Camphor -- External Sources of Supply -- Uses of Camphor -- Medicinal -- Personal and Domestic -- Ceremonial -- Chapter 4: Western Asia -- Late Antiquity and the Pre-Islamic Near East -- Jewish International Merchants, the Rādhāniya -- The Arabo-Persian World under Islām -- Literary Sources -- Properties and Categories of Camphor -- Environment and the Mythology of Production -- Areas of Production -- India -- Malay Peninsula -- Sumatra -- Trade -- Uses of Camphor -- Pharmacy and Materia Medica -- Fumigants and Perfumes -- Chapter 5: The Medieval West -- Southern Bridgeheads -- Greeks and Jews -- Arabs and Jews -- Southern France -- Northern Italy -- North of the Alps and the Pyrenees -- Uses of Camphor. | |
505 | 8 | |a Alchemy and Pyrotechnics -- Medicine -- Chapter 6: South East Asia -- Blumea sp. and Blumea camphor -- Dryobalanops camphor -- Collection -- Camphor Speech -- Other Rituals and Superstitions -- Uses of Camphor -- Medicinal and Funerary -- Betel -- Trade -- Traditional Trade -- Imperial Trade -- Chapter 7: China and Japan -- The Supply of Camphor -- Lung-nao-hsiang. Dragon's Brain Perfume -- Malay Peninsula -- North-western Borneo, P'o-ni -- Sumatra -- Tribute -- Ai (ngai): Blumea camphor, and chang-nao: Cinnamomum camphor -- Uses of Camphor -- Aromata -- Materia Medica -- Postscript: Origins and Modes of Diffusion -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Indices -- Persons -- Places and Regions -- Biological Categories: Orders to Species -- Ethnics -- Titles of Works Quoted in the Text -- General. | |
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