Fantastic Fauna from China to Crimea
Image-Making in Eurasian Nomadic Societies, 700 BCE-500 CE
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399528535
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black and white illustrations, 96 colour illustrations, 1 colour map 700
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Short description:
Explores the zoomorphic imagination and image-making of Eurasian nomads and their dynamic interactions with neighbouring sedentary empires
MoreLong description:
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Numerous Iron-Age nomadic alliances flourished along the 5000-mile Eurasian steppe route. From Crimea to the Mongolian grassland, nomadic image-making was rooted in metonymically conveyed zoomorphic designs, creating an alternative ecological reality. The nomadic elite nucleus embraced this elaborate image system to construct collective memory in reluctant, diverse political alliances organised around shared geopolitical goals rather than ethnic ties. Largely known by the term ""animal style"", this zoomorphic visual rhetoric became so ubiquitous across the Eurasian steppe network that it transcended border regions and reached the heartland of sedentary empires like China and Persia.
This book shows how a shared fluency in animal-style design became a status-defining symbol and a bonding agent in opportunistic nomadic alliances, and was later adopted by their sedentary neighbours to showcase worldliness and control over the ""Other"". In this study of enormous geographical scope, the author raises broader questions about the place of nomadic societies in the art-historical canon.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: At a Crossroads on the Eurasian Steppe Route
2. Design Idioms in Steppe Metalwork
3. The Tomb Inside Out: Playing (Mortuary) Politics
4. Animal Style in the Xiongnu Era: The Making of a New Elite
5. Waning and Re-emergence
6. Towards a Resolution
Selected Bibliography
Illustration Acknowledgements
Index
