Contact and exchange in the ancient world / edited by Victor H. Mair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mair, Victor H., 1943-

Series:

Perspectives on the global past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commerce, Prehistoric.

Local exchange trading systems--Eurasia--Cross-cultural studies.

Local exchange trading systems.

Exchange--Eurasia--Cross-cultural studies.

Exchange.

Cross-cultural orientation--Eurasia--History.

Cross-cultural orientation.

Civilization, Ancient.

History.

Eurasia.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 310 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2006]

Summary:

For the past half-century, area studies scholarship has been the principal filter through which scholars, policy makers, journalists, and the general public have organized knowledge about the larger world. The essays presented here reflect widespread recent interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundary lines conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They do not focus on any single region or specific theme such as industrialization in Japan or diplomacy during the Cold War. Rather they intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with a broad array of issues and experiences to highlight the very general theme of cross-cultural interactions in numerous and diverse contexts.

Contents:

Introduction: Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention / Victor H. Mair 1

1 Beyond Modernocentrism: Toward Fresh Visions of the Global Past / Jerry H. Bentley 17

2 The Trans-Eurasian Exchange: The Prehistory of Chinese Relations with the West / Andrew Sherratt 30

3 The Queen Mother of the West: A Study of the Influence of Western Prototypes on the Iconography of the Taoist Deity / Elfriede R. Knauer 62

4 Natural History and Cultural History: The Circulation of Hunting Leopards in Eurasia, Seventh-Seventeenth Centuries / Thomas T. Allsen 116

5 Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Turks and the Shaping of the Turkic Peoples / Peter B. Golden 136

6 Early Loan Words in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations / Michael Witzel 158

7 Textiles as a Medium of Exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Western Asia / Irene Good 191

8 Cultural and Political Control in North China: Style and Use of the Bronzes of Yan at Liulihe during the Early Western Zhou / Yan Sun 215

9 Biological Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages / John L. Sorenson, Carl L. Johannessen 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0824828844

OCLC:

62896389

Publisher Number:

9780824828844