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Memory and Agency in Ancient China - Shaping the Life History of Objects (Hardcover)
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Memory and Agency in Ancient China - Shaping the Life History of Objects (Hardcover)
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Memory and Agency in Ancient China offers a novel perspective on
China's material culture. The volume explores the complex 'life
histories' of selected objects, whose trajectories as ginle objects
('biographies') and object types ('lineages') cut across both
temporal and physical space. The essays, written by a team of
international scholars, analyse the objects in an effort to
understand how they were shaped by the constraints of their social,
political and aesthetic contexts, just as they were also guided by
individual preference and capricious memory. They also demonstrate
how objects were capable of effecting change. Ranging
chronologically from the Neolithic to the present, and spatially
from northern to southern mainland China and Taiwan, this book
highlights the varied approaches that archaeologists and art
historians use when attempting to reconstruct object trajectories.
It also showcases the challenges they face, particularly with the
unearthing of objects from archaeological contexts that,
paradoxically, come to represent the earliest known point of their
'post-recovery lives'.
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