The Camel's Load in Live and Death

Iconography and Ideology of Chinese Pottery Figurines from Han to Tang and there Relevants to Trade along the Silk Routes

E.R. Knauer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

164 Seiten

2011 | 2. Auflage
AKANTHUS (Verlag)
978-3-905083-28-6 (ISBN)

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A detailed study of the saddles and the loads of Chinese statuettes of camels that were put into tombs as mortuary furnishings, provides information on the goods traded along the Silk Routes over a period of approximately one thousand years. Besides an examination of the original breeding grounds and domestication of those beasts of burden, special attention is paid to silk, the main commodity, and its dissemination across Asia. Considerable changes in the depiction of the loads occurring over time, moreover, permit insight into the nature of Chinese religious beliefs and funerary practices between the Han and the Tang dynasties.

The auther served as Consulting Scholar at the Mediterranean Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, PA. Trained in Germany in the fields of Archaeology, Ethnology, Art- and Ancient History, she has worked at the Classical collection of the State Museums in Berlin-Charlottenburg before moving to the United States in 1975.

Reihe/Serie	Akanthus Crescens ; IV
Verlagsort	Kilchberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 220 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Einbandart	Paperback
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Schlagworte	Kamelstatuetten • Seidenstrasse • Tang-Zeit
ISBN-10	3-905083-28-0 / 3905083280
ISBN-13	978-3-905083-28-6 / 9783905083286
Zustand	Neuware