Memory and Agency in Ancient China: Shaping the Life History of Objects - Hardcover

Edited By Francis Allard , Yan Sun , Kathryn M. Linduff

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108472575 ISBN 13: 9781108472579

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Applies the 'life history' of objects approach to China's prehistoric, early dynastic and more recent material culture.

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About the Authors

Francis Allard is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Pennsylvania. Allard is a scholar of complex societies, nomadic pastoralism, and the expansion of the Han Empire.

Yan Sun is Professor of Art History at Gettysburg College. A scholar of the bronze cultures in north China, she is co-author of Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors (Cambridge, 2017).

Katheryn Linduff is Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh. A specialist in the art and archaeology of Eurasia and East Asia, she is most recently co-author of Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors (Cambridge, 2017) and editor of several books.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108472575
• ISBN 13: 9781108472579
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328