Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World /

Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion? The contributors to this volume do not attempt to provide a definitive answer to this contentious question, one of the most debated issues of the past century. Instead, they shift the focus from theory to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Mair, Victor H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2006]
Series:Perspectives on the global past.
Subjects:
Commerce, Prehistoric.
Local exchange trading systems > Eurasia > Cross-cultural studies.
Exchange > Eurasia > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural orientation > Eurasia > History.
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilization, Classical.
Commerce préhistorique.
Systèmes d'échanges locaux > Eurasie > Études transculturelles.
Échange, Théorie de l' (Économie politique) > Eurasie > Études transculturelles.
Formation transculturelle > Eurasie > Histoire.
Civilisation ancienne.
Échange (Économie politique) > Eurasie > Études transculturelles.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Civilization, Classical
Civilization, Ancient
Commerce, Prehistoric
Cross-cultural orientation
Exchange
Local exchange trading systems
Kulturkontakt
Eurasia
Eurasien
Cross-cultural studies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention / Mair, Victor H.
  • 1. Beyond Modernocentrism: Toward Fresh Visions of the Global Past / Bentley, Jerry H.
  • 2. The Trans-Eurasian Exchange: The Prehistory of Chinese Relations with the West / Sherratt, Andrew
  • 3. The Queen Mother of the West: A Study of the Influence of Western Prototypes on the Iconography of the Taoist Deity / Knauer, Elfriede R.
  • 4. Natural History and Cultural History: The Circulation of Hunting Leopards in Eurasia, Seventh-Seventeenth Centuries / Allsen, Thomas T.
  • 5. Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Turks and the Shaping of the Turkic Peoples / Golden, Peter B.
  • 6. Early Loan Words in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations / Witzel, Michael
  • 7. Textiles as a Medium of Exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Western Asia / Good, Irene
  • 8. Cultural and Political Control in North China: Style and Use of the Bronzes of Yan at Liulihe during the Early Western Zhou / Sun, Yan
  • 9. Biological Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages / Sorenson, John L. / Johannessen, Carl L.
  • Contributors
  • Index

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