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Entangled itineraries : materials, practices, and knowledges across Eurasia /

Trade flowed across Eurasia, around the Indian Ocean, and over the Mediterranean for millennia, but in the early modern period, larger parts of the globe became connected through these established trade routes. Knowledge, embodied in various people, materials, texts, objects, and practices, also mov...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Pamela H., 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1. Overview; Chapter 1. Nodes of Convergence, Material Complexes, and Entangled Itineraries \ Pamela H. Smith; Chapter 2. Trans-Eurasian Routes of Exchange: A Brief Historical Overview \ Tansen Sen and Pamela H. Smith; Part 2. Entangled Itineraries: Modes of Approach; Chapter 3. The Silk Roads as a Model for Exploring Eurasianm Transmissions of Medical Knowledge: Views from the Tibetan Medical Manuscripts of Dunhuang \ Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
  • Chapter 4. Things (Wu) and Their Transformations (Zaowu) in the Late Ming Dynasty: Song Yingxing's and Huang Cheng's Approaches to Mobilizing Craft Knowledge \ Dagmar SchäferChapter 5. Curative Commodities between Europe and Southeast Asia, 1500-1700 \ Tara Alberts; Chapter 6. Translating the Art of Tea: Naturalizing Chinese Savoir Faire in British Assam \ Francesca Bray; Part 3. Material Complexes in Motion; Chapter 7. The Itinerary of Hing/Awei/Asafetida across Eurasia, 400-1800 \ Angela Ki Che Leung and Ming Chen
  • Chapter 8. Smoke and Silkworms: Itineraries of Material Complexes across Eurasia \ Pamela H. Smith, Joslyn DeVinney, Sasha Grafit, and Xiaomeng LiuChapter 9. Itineraries of Images: Agents of Integration in the Buddhist Cosmopolis \ Tansen Sen; Chapter 10. Itineraries of Inkstones in Early Modern China \ Dorothy Ko; Part 4. Convergences and the Emergence of New Objects of Knowledge; Chapter 11. Convergences in and around Bursa: Sufism, Alchemy, Iatrochemistry in Turkey, 1500-1750 \ Feza Günergun; Chapter 12. A Wooden Skeleton Emerges in the Knowledge Hub of Edo Japan \ Chang Che-chia; Notes