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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas : Material Culture of the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Authors : Whitfield, Susan. Publisher : University of California Press.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of California Press

ISBN-100520281780

ISBN-139780520281783

eBay Product ID (ePID)239816442

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Book TitleSilk, Slaves, and Stupas : Material Culture of the Silk Road

Number of Pages376 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicArchaeology, Asia / General, World, Europe / General, Customs & Traditions

FeaturesNew Edition

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorSusan Whitfield

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight17.6 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2018-001196

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsOne 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 Decimal950.1

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Table Of ContentList 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

SynopsisFollowing 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 NumberDS33.1.W46 2018