Format:
xiii, 278 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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26 cm
ISBN:
1108418619
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9781108418614
Content:
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 BC to the mid-eighth century BC. 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-266) and index. - Some text in Chinese
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List of figures
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List of charts
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List of maps. Introduction: the inner Asian frontier reconsidered : The reconsidered inner Asian frontier. 1 Shaping the study of inner Asian artifacts and mental boundaries
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Materialization of identity in metal on the inner Asian frontier: artifacts in action
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Frontiers or contact zones
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Artifacts as classificatory on the inner Asian frontier
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Methods and objectives
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Technoscapes, individualscapes, regionscapes and lineagescapes. 2 Technoscapes and the materialization of ideas in metal on the inner Asian frontier (c.3000-1500 BC)
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Inner Asian frontier technoscapes
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Consequences of these early technoscapes: artifacts in action. 3 Identity and artifacts on the north central and northeastern frontier during the period of state expansion in th elate second and the early first millennium BCE
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Variations in identity construction in the northeastern region
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The north central region
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Different modes of identity construction in the central region of the inner Asian frontier. 4 The rise of states and the formation of group identities in the western regions of the inner Asian frontier (c.1500 to the eighth century BC)
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Local communities in western Gansu and the Qinghai region. 5 Final statements/conclusions and future challenges
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The formation of technoscapes on the inner Asian frontier
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Individualscapes, regionscapes and lineagescapes from the late second to early first millennium BC
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The fluidity of the scapes
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Final summation. Glossary of terms
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Bibliography
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Index
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
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Zentralasien
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Mittelasien
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Kulturaustausch
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Geschichte 3000-7000 v. Chr.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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