ISBN:
9780199367344
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0199367345
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 270 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in the archaeology of ancient states
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Yao, Alice The ancient Highlands of Southwest China
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Yao, Alice The ancient Highlands of Southwest China
DDC:
931/.3
Keywords:
ART History
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Ancient & Classical
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HISTORY China
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Asia
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Antiquities
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China, Southwest Antiquities
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China, Southwest History
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China, Southwest Antiquities
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China, Southwest History
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China, Southwest
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China Südwest
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Yunnan
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Bronzezeit
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Handynastie
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Grenzgebiet
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Geschichte
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China
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Funde
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Ausgrabung
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Grabbeigabe
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Kultstätte
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Vor- und Frühgeschichte
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Archäologie
Abstract:
Although long considered to be a barren region on the periphery of ancient Chinese civilization, the southwest massif was once the political heartland of numerous Bronze Age polities. Their distinctive material tradition--intricately cast bronze kettle drums and cowrie shell containers--has given archaeologists and historians a glimpse of the extraordinary wealth, artistry, and power exercised by highland leaders over the course of the first millennium BC
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I. De-centering a historicity of the peripheryHistory regained in prehistory -- Death and funerary ritual: where multiple time frames converge -- Part II. Bronze Age histories -- Time and place in the early Bronze Age -- Bronze kettledrums: emergence of an iconic regional tradition -- A southwest political time -- Part III. Native subjects and Han rule -- A divided and entangled imperial frontier -- The d(eb)atability of the past.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index
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Part I. De-centering a historicity of the periphery
,
History regained in prehistory
,
Death and funerary ritual: where multiple time frames converge
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Part II. Bronze Age histories
,
Time and place in the early Bronze Age
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Bronze kettledrums: emergence of an iconic regional tradition
,
A southwest political time
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Part III. Native subjects and Han rule
,
A divided and entangled imperial frontier
,
The d(eb)atability of the past
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