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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 17 October 2024
- ISBN 9789004693388
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 656 g
- Language English 773
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Short description:
This volume presents studies on Silk Road artefacts and manuscripts. Uniting historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators, Saved by Desert Sands provides powerful examples of how the study of material culture enriches our understanding of the Silk Roads.
MoreLong description:
Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of forgotten manuscript archives and sand-buried cities in the twentieth century has brought to light thousands of manuscripts and artefacts. To date, textual content has largely been prioritised over physical objects and their materiality, but the material aspects of these objects are just as important. Focusing primarily on the material and non-textual, this volume presents studies on silver dishes, sealing systems, manuscripts, Buddhist paintings, and ceramics, all of which demonstrate the centrality of material culture in the study of the Silk Roads.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Conventions
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Contributors
1 Re-discovering Objects: Material Culture on the Silk Roads
Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos
2 Insights into the Lives of Soldiers along the Hexi Corridor during the Western Han Dynasty
Arnaud Bertrand
3 Writing beyond Han Boundaries: A Scribal Primer at the Niya Site
Christopher J. Foster
4 Seals and Sealing Practices in the Kingdom of Kroraina
Tomas L. H?is?ter
5 The Social Life of a Tang Silver Dish
Hajni Elias
6 A Pensive Prince or a Languid Lady? Tang Ceramics of Women Seated on Hourglass Stools
Kelsey Granger
7 Dali Daggers: Buddhist Material Culture on the Southern Silk Road
Megan Bryson
8 Reconsidering Stein Painting 14 of the Jinshan Kingdom in Tenth-Century Dunhuang
Luk Yu-ping
9 How to Handle a Scroll? Evidence from Pelliot Chinois 3812
Nadine Bregler
10 Manuscripts on the Move: A Codex?s Journey from Lingzhou to Dunhuang
Jing Feng
11 The Life and Afterlife of a Funerary Divination Scroll
Mélodie Doumy
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