Sino-Iranica: China and Ancient Iran - Commodities and Cultural Exchange from 1000BC to Medieval Times (Hardcover)

In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in ancient times. He does so by tracing the history of cultivated plants, drugs, products, minerals, metals, precious stones and textiles, in their migration from Persia to China and from China to Persia. Walnut, peach, apricot and olive, as well as more exotic products like jasmine, henna, indigo, lapis lazuli, amber, coral, gold, ebony, zinc and myrrh are all included. Few other publications provide so much informative detail about the way human activity has modified the natural world through the movement of plants and other natural resource products from one historical civilisation to another. The work also offers important detail on Iran for periods when Iranian sources are slim. Introduced by Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, this classic work is once more available for all scholars of Iran, China and cultural exchange.

General

Imprint:	I.B. Tauris
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2017
Authors:	Berthold Laufer
Introduction by:	Brian Spooner
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	472
ISBN-13:	978-1-78453-201-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-78453-201-0
Barcode:	9781784532017

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