Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects

ISBN-13: 9781108472579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 308 str.

Francis Allard; Yan Sun; Kathryn M. Linduff

Opis

Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

Spis treści

Introduction: memory and agency in Ancient China: shaping the life histories of objects Francis Allard, Yan Sun and Katheryn M. Linduff; 1. Memory, amnesia and the formation of identity symbols in China Gideon Shelach; 2. The lives of shovels and bells in early South China: memory, ritual and the power of destination Francis Allard; 3. The whole and fragmented lives of jade objects from late Neolithic Middle Yangzi river burials (ca. 2000 BC) Sascha Priewe; 4. The social life of salt in Ancient China from the Late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty Pochan Chen; 5. A divergent life history of bronze willow-leaf-shaped swords of Western Zhou China from 11th to c. 10th centuries BCE Yan Sun; 6. Bird-pillar basins and cylindrical vessels: object lineage in Ancient China Xiaolong Wu; 7. Toiletries and the production of social memory from the warring states through the Han (4th c. BCE–3rd c. CE) Sheri Lullo; 8. A biographical approach to the study of the mounted archer motif during the Han Dynasty Leslie Wallace; 9. Dynamic between form and material: the bi disc in Western Han noble burial ritual Eileen Lam; 10. Crossing the Taiwan Strait: contextualizing and re-contextualizing Taiwan Aboriginal Objects (1895–1980) Du Hui; 11. Artifacts that invoke the aura and authority of the ancient Katheryn M. Linduff