Introduction. Bamboo: tree or grass? Part 1: Bamboo an anthropological and historical approach 1. Bamboo, man, landscape2.Terminology and technology: identification, uses, names; from naming to datation 3. Uses of bamboo according to its qualities 4. Bamboo as symbol 5. Bamboo and power Part 2: Bamboo iconography 6. Bamboo used as it is, after felling 7. Uses of bambootube 8. Use of split bamboo cut into lengths 9. Basket-making 10. The Gia Định Art School contribution Part 3: Contemporary bamboo 11. Bamboo at present 12. Conclusion 13. Annexes
Đinh Trọng Hiếu is an anthropologist and ethnobotanist. Until his retirement in 2003, he worked as a researcher at CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research).
Emmanuel Poisson is Professor of History at Paris Cité University, France, and Deputy Director at the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE, UMR 8043).
