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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| Superior document: | Brill's Indological Library ; v.14 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : BRILL,, 1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Indological Library
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.