”The most wonderful summer of my life”: Walter Bosshard’s journeys in Inner Mongolia

Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina (2018). ”The most wonderful summer of my life”: Walter Bosshard’s journeys in Inner Mongolia. Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ’18. Ethnolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Religion and Culture, 11(1), pp. 7-27. Charles University in Prague Philosophical Faculty, Institute of South and Central Asia Seminar of Mongolian Studies

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Special Issue: Travelling to the Heart of Asia: A History of Western Encounters with Mongolia:
This paper focuses on the Mongolian journeys of one of the most important representatives of modern photo-journalism, the Swiss journalist and author Walter Bosshard (1892–1975). From 1934 to 1936 he undertook five journeys in Inner Mongolia from which he brought back roughly 2,000 photos, of which only 131 have been published in his travel report Kühles Grassland Mongolei (“Fresh grasslands of Mongolia”) of 1938. The book gained wide popularity among Swiss and German readers and some of its photographs have achieved iconic status in modern ethnographic photography. The paper provides a description of Bosshard’s Mongolian journeys and introduces his travel report, analysing the discursive modes of his representation of the Mongolians.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Art and Cultural Studies > Institute for the Science of Religion

UniBE Contributor:

Kollmar-Paulenz, Karénina

Subjects:

200 Religion

ISSN:

1803-5647

Publisher:

Charles University in Prague Philosophical Faculty, Institute of South and Central Asia Seminar of Mongolian Studies

Language:

English

Submitter:

Ionia Merve Katharina Tauern

Date Deposited:

15 Jun 2021 10:49

Last Modified:

01 Mar 2023 10:20

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.152438

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/152438

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