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Le murier dans la Chine antique: Rites, mythes et symboles

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Le murier dans la Chine antique: Rites, mythes et symboles
Le murier dans la Chine antique: Rites, mythes et symboles

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Le murier dans la Chine antique: Rites, mythes et symboles

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English summary: The mulberry tree gave birth to silk and sericulture, and thus became an intimate part of Chinese society and culture. The author provides an ethnobotanical and cultural anthropological study of the mulberry tree in ancient imperial China as a natural, social, and cultural total, onto which were fixed a style of cultivation and exploitation, a means of organizing belief for religion and ritual, a means of explication for the creation of myths and legends, and a means of thought harmonizing natural and social cosmologies. French description: Le murier a donne naissance ... la soie par sa feuille, nourriture essentielle du ver ... soie. Gryce ... cette place incontournable dans la sericiculture, le murier s'est profondement incorpore dans la vie sociale et culturelle chinoise. Il a ete progressivement faconne comme sujet rituel, mythologique et legendaire, aux fonctions et statuts divers: arbre ancestral, arbre sacre, arbre solaire, arbre de souverainete, arbre exorciste, arbre d'immortalite. Autant d'images qui ont tisse un Tout montrant l'integration d'un arbre dans le systeme social et culturel chinois, en constante evolution depuis les premiers pouvoirs centralises jusqu'... la periode d'unification politique et ideologique de la Chine, que constitue la dynastie des Han. L'auteur nous donne ici une etude ethnobotanique et d'anthropologie culturelle sur le murier en tant que fait naturel, social et culturel total, sur lequel se sont fixes un mode d'exploitation des plantes cultivees, un mode de croyance organisant la vie rituelle et religieuse, un mode d'explication operant la creation des mythes et legendes et un mode de pensee correlative harmonisant cosmologies naturelle et sociale.

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