Linduff, Katheryn & Karen Rubinson (eds.). 2018. How objects tell stories. Essays in honor of Emma C. Bunker (Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology 1). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers.
Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology is a new series launched providing a major forum for discussion and publication of current international research projects and fieldwork concerning the art and archaeology of Central and Inner Asia. Uniquely the series covers the vast regions flanking the ancient Silk Roads from the Iranian world to western China and from the Russian steppes to north-western India. The series mainly focuses on the pre-Islamic period of art and archaeology of Inner Asia. Related scholarly articles on language and history are also published.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- Katheryn M. LINDUFF and Karen S. RUBINSON, “How Objects Tell Stories: Essays in Honor of Emma C. Bunker”
I. OBJECTS AND CULTURAL INTERSECTION
- Trudy S. KAWAMI, “A Steppe Warrior in Achaemenid Employ? Grave 4.28 at Choga Mish, Khuzistan, Iran”
- Annette L. JULIANO, “Restructuring Reality: Zoomorphs, from Fantastic to Hybrid”
- Catrin KOST, “Changed Strategies of Interaction: Exchange Relations on China’s Northern Frontier in Light of the Finds from Xinzhuangtou”
- Judith A. LERNER, “All That Glitters…Foreign Jewelry in Chinese Tombs: from Han into Tang”
- Katheryn M. LINDUFF, “Guardians of the Brave/Keepers of the Empire: Horses in the Han imaginary”
- Jessica RAWSON, “Gold, an Exotic Material in Early China”
- Karen S. RUBINSON, “The Authority of Horse-Rider Iconography: Imagery as the Power of the Past (The Eurasian Steppe and Yunnan in the late Millennium BCE)”
II: OBJECTS, TECHNOLOGY AND CROSS-CULTURAL EXCHANGE
- CHIOU-PENG TzeHuey, “Early Copper-base Metals in Western Yunnan”
- HAN Rubin and WANG Dong-Ning, “Study of Tin-enriched Ancient Bronzes from the Northern Grassland of China”
- Sergey MINIAEV, “Xiongnu Bronze Metallurgy in the Trans-Baikal Area”
- Vincent C. PIGOTT, “The Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC), the Seima-Turbino Horizon and a Possible Eastward Transmission of Tin-Bronze Technology in Later Third and Early Second Millennium BCE Inner Asia”
Source: How Objects Tell Stories