Elements in Ancient East Asia – serie
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19 produkter
The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
Av Christopher J. Foster, Glenda Chao m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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The immense outpouring of archaeological discoveries this past century has shed new light on ancient East Asia, and China in particular. Yet in concert with this development another, more troubling, trend has likewise gained momentum: the looting of cultural heritage and the sale of unprovenienced …
Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
Av Yijie Zhuang
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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The transition from the middle to late Holocene (5000-4000 BP) coincided with profound socioeconomic transformations and intensified regional and trans-regional interactions in late prehistoric China. These environmental and socioeconomic changes gave rise to diverse lifeways and settlement modes …
Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
Av E. Andrew Bennett, Yichen Liu m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
311 kr
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East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have already contributed much to our growing understanding of past East Asian populations, and cultural and linguistic dispersals. This Element aims to …
Mind and Psychology in Early China
Av Lisa Raphals
Häftad, 2026
276 kr
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This Element describes early Chinese views of the heart-mind (xin 心) and its relation to the psychology of a whole person, including the body, affective and cognitive faculties, and the spirit (shén 神). It argues for a divergence in Warring States thought between 'mind-centered' and …
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality
Household Disparities at Jōmon and Yayoi Sites in Southern Kantō, Japan
Häftad, 2026
291 kr
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This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jōmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyzes 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 archaeological sites in southern Kantō, dating from the Late Jōmon to the end of the Yayoi …
The Methods and Ethics of Researching Unprovenienced Artifacts from East Asia
Av Christopher J. Foster, Glenda Chao m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
938 kr
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The immense outpouring of archaeological discoveries this past century has shed new light on ancient East Asia, and China in particular. Yet in concert with this development another, more troubling, trend has likewise gained momentum: the looting of cultural heritage and the sale of unprovenienced …
Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element examines evolving methods of cultivating the embodied self, including healing diseases and creating a superior person, in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia. It analyses many topics, including the textualization of bodily regimens and therapies, their systematization, …
Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE)
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered the image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. It is known, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the …
Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
Av Yijie Zhuang
Inbunden, 2025
918 kr
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The transition from the middle to late Holocene (5000-4000 BP) coincided with profound socioeconomic transformations and intensified regional and trans-regional interactions in late prehistoric China. These environmental and socioeconomic changes gave rise to diverse lifeways and settlement modes …
Reconstructing the Human Population History of East Asia through Ancient Genomics
Av E. Andrew Bennett, Yichen Liu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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East Asian population history has only recently been the focus of intense investigations using ancient genomics techniques, yet these studies have already contributed much to our growing understanding of past East Asian populations, and cultural and linguistic dispersals. This Element aims to …
Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia
Av Mandy Jui-man Wu, Katheryn M. Linduff
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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Gendered archaeology in Asia has been studied by archaeologists since the 1990s and scholars have posed questions such as the role and construction of gendered identities in ancient societies. In this Element, the authors review secondary literature, report on to what stage the research has …
Unearthing Fluctuating Wealth Inequality
Household Disparities at Jōmon and Yayoi Sites in Southern Kantō, Japan
Inbunden, 2026
938 kr
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This Element examines how archaeology can contribute to the investigation of ancient wealth disparities, using the Jōmon and Yayoi periods in Japan as a case study. It analyzes 1,150 pit dwellings from 29 archaeological sites in southern Kantō, dating from the Late Jōmon to the end of the Yayoi …
Mind and Psychology in Early China
Av Lisa Raphals
Inbunden, 2026
892 kr
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This Element describes early Chinese views of the heart-mind (xin 心) and its relation to the psychology of a whole person, including the body, affective and cognitive faculties, and the spirit (shén 神). It argues for a divergence in Warring States thought between 'mind-centered' and …
Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE)
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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Over the past decades, archaeological exploration of southern China has shattered the image of primitive indigenous people and their pristine environments. It is known, for example, that East Asia's largest settlements and hydraulic infrastructures in the third millennium BCE were located in the …
Violence and the Rise of Centralized States in East Asia
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Violence, both physical and nonphysical, is central to any society, but it is a version of the problem that it claims to solve. This Element examines how states in ancient East Asia, from the late Shang through the end of the Han dynasty, wielded violence to create and display authority, and also …
Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought
Häftad, 2025
282 kr
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This Element examines evolving methods of cultivating the embodied self, including healing diseases and creating a superior person, in late Warring States and early imperial East Asia. It analyses many topics, including the textualization of bodily regimens and therapies, their systematization, …
Medicine and Healing in Ancient East Asia
A View from Excavated Texts
Häftad, 2023
317 kr
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This Element first discusses the creation of transmitted medical canons that are generally dated from early imperial times through the medieval era and then, by way of contrast, provides translations and analyses of non-transmitted texts from the pre-imperial late Shang and Zhou eras, the early …
Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia
Av Mark Hudson
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities …
Archaeological Studies on Gender in Early East Asia
Av Mandy Jui-man Wu, Katheryn M. Linduff
Häftad, 2025
311 kr
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Gendered archaeology in Asia has been studied by archaeologists since the 1990s and scholars have posed questions such as the role and construction of gendered identities in ancient societies. In this Element, the authors review secondary literature, report on to what stage the research has …
