Ritual and economy in East Asia: archaeological perspectives : festschrift in honor of Lothar von Falkenhausen's 60th birthday / edited by Anke Hein, Rowan Flad, and Bryan K. Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hein, Anke, editor, author.

Flad, Rowan K., editor, author.

Miller, Bryan Kristopher, editor, author.

Falkenhausen, Lothar von, honouree, writer of afterword.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Series:

IDEAS, DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES.9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Antiquities.

China.

East Asia--Antiquities.

East Asia.

Rites and ceremonies--China--History.

Rites and ceremonies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--China--History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Material culture--China--History.

Material culture.

Archaeology and art--China--History.

Archaeology and art.

Excavations (Archaeology)--China.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2023]

Contents:

List of illustrations

List of tables

Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng

Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein

Uncovering disguised social inequality: an investigation of the Bronze Age cemetery at Donghuishan from the perspective of ritual economy / Wen Chenghao

On the margins of the Chinese world: the bronze, iron, and gold of the Xi Rong at Majiayuan / Alain Thote

Ritual economies of peripheral East Asia: reflections on Mahan mortuary archaeology / Jack Davey

State regulations or human sentiment: the disappearance of funerary figurines in ninth century Chang'an and Luoyang / Ye Wa

No sacrifice too great: a measured speculation on the motive behind the great Sanxingdui hoards / Richard Ehrich

Raw material hoards, ritual deposits, or disturbed burials? object pits in the mountains of Southwest China / Anke Hein

The zooarchaeology of oracle bone divination in Northwest China / Katherine Brunson, Li Zhipeng, Rowan Flad, Qiao Hong, and Wang Qianqian

Emergence of chime-bells and Li-yue in the Zhou dynasty / Kazuo Miyamoto

Consuming the herds: animal sacrifice and offerings of the Xiongnu / Bryan Miller

Long-distance influences and local adoption: technological innovation in ritual and economy in late prehistoric Northwest China / Rowan Flad

Organization of copper mining and smelting along the middle Yangzi River / Shi Tao

Erlitou and Nanwa: contextualizing interaction in early Bronze age China using a production-consumption relationship / Lee Hsiu-ping

Archaeology of community: changing settlement patterns from the Yingpanshan to the Shi'erqiao period in ancient Sichuan, China / Lin Kuei-chen

China for Asia: Bencharong and Peranakan porcelains in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Ellen Hsieh

The Xi'an Kharoṣṭhīinscription: a new translation / Minku Kim

Solidified Qi clouds: reconsideration of the form and name of Boshan incense burners / Zhang Hanmo

"What was the nicest thing you ever found?" an essay on the meaning of objects / Hans Barnard

Epilogue: the number 60 and the beginning of everything / Willeke Wendrich

Afterword / Lothar von Falkenhausen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781950446414 (electronic bk.)

1950446417 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

99995322741

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