”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

Text Mongolica_Pragensia_2018-1_k3-7-27.pdf - Published Version Restricted to registered users only Available under License Publisher holds Copyright. Download (182kB)

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.

Interest & Impact

Downloads

2 since deposited on 15 Jun 2021
0 in the past 12 months

Citations

5 Citations in Web of Science ®
6 Citations in Scopus

Search

in Google Scholar™

Services

Actions (login required)

Edit item

Actions (login required)

Edit item