Katheryn M. Linduff

Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors (eBook, ePUB)

Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, 3000-700 BCE

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. This area was a frontier, an ambiguous space that lay at the margins of direct political control by the metropolitan states, where local and colonial ideas and practices were reconstructed transculturally. These identities were often merged and displayed in material culture. Types of objects, styles, and iconography were often hybrids or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages in which they were deposited and found. Patrons commissioned objects that marked a symbolic vision of place and person and that could mobilize support, legitimize rule, and bind people together. Through close examination of key artifacts, this book untangles the considerable changes in political structure and cultural makeup of ancient Chinese states and their northern neighbors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108311205
• Artikelnr.: 49989700

Autorenporträt

Katheryn M. Linduff is a Professor in the Departments of Art History and Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh. She has engaged in art historical research and collaborative archaeological fieldwork, focusing on the prehistory, and Bronze and Iron Ages of the Inner Asian Frontier for many years. She has published extensively on metallurgy, gender, China and Eurasia, the archaeology of the Inner Asian Frontier, and on artifacts. Recently, she has published an edited volume with Bryan Hanks for Cambridge (2009) that focuses on issues of social complexity in the Late Prehistoric Period of the Eurasian Steppe and several articles on the transmission of metallurgical knowledge and artifacts across the frontiers to the north and west of the early Chinese Empires.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the inner Asian frontier restructured; 1. Shaping the study
of inner Asian artifacts and mental boundaries Katheryn M. Linduff; 2.
Technoscapes and the materialization of ideas in metal in the inner Asian
frontier (c.3000-1500 BCE) Katheryn M. Linduff; 3. Identity and artifacts
in the north-central and northeastern frontier during the period of state
expansion in late second and the early first millennium BCE Yan Sun; 4. The
rise of state and the formation of group identities in the Western regions
of the inner Asian frontier (c.1500 to the eighth century BCE) Cao Wei, Liu
Yuanqing, Katheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun; 5. Conclusions and future
challenges Katheryn M. Linduff and Yan Sun.