Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
by Whitfield, Susan | PB | Acceptable
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780520281783
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520281780
ISBN-13
9780520281783
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239816442
Product Key Features
Book Title
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas : Material Culture of the Silk Road
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Archaeology, Asia / General, World, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions
Features
New Edition
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2018-001196
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
One of the virtues of Whitfield's approach is that she is able to range far and wide among the various peoples, cultures, and polities of Eurasia and Africa. Though half of her ten chapters deal with objects that were excavated within the present-day boundaries of China--a reflection of the longstanding Sinocentric bias in the field of Silk Road studies--Whitfield goes to great lengths to contextualize these finds within broader Eurasian networks of exchange far outside of China.
Dewey Decimal
950.1
Edition Description
New Edition
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Names Introduction 1 * A Pair of Steppe Earrings 2 * A Hellenistic Glass Bowl 3 * A Hoard of Kushan Coins 4 * Amluk Dara Stupa 1 5 * A Bactrian Ewer 6 * A Khotanese Plaque 7 * The Blue Qur?an 8 * A Byzantine Hunter Silk 9 * A Chinese Almanac 10 * The Unknown Slave Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road , Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road--those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia. Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively, visual, and tangible way to understand the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antique and medieval worlds.
LC Classification Number
DS33.1.W46 2018
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