Ancient China and Its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, 3000-700 Bce

ISBN-13: 9781108418614 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 288 str.

Katheryn M. Linduff; Cao Wei; Yan Sun

Opis

This volume looks at the effects of interaction and the nature of identity construction in a frontier or contact zone through the analysis of material culture, especially in mortuary settings.

Spis treści

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.