Contact and Exchange in the Ancient World / / ed. by Victor H. Mair.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Allsen, Thomas T.,; Bentley, Jerry H.,; Golden, Peter B.,; Good, Irene,; Johannessen, Carl L.,; Knauer, Elfriede R.,; Mair, Victor H.,; Sherratt, Andrew,; Sorenson, John L.,; Sun, Yan,; Witzel, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Mair, Victor H.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion? The contributors to this volume do not attempt to provide a definitive answer to this contentious question, one of the most debated issues of the past century. Instead, they shift the focus from theory to...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: Kinesis versus Stasis, Interaction versus Independent Invention
• 1. Beyond Modernocentrism: Toward Fresh Visions of the Global Past
• 2. The Trans-Eurasian Exchange: The Prehistory of Chinese Relations with the West
• 3. The Queen Mother of the West: A Study of the Influence of Western Prototypes on the Iconography of the Taoist Deity
• 4. Natural History and Cultural History: The Circulation of Hunting Leopards in Eurasia, Seventh-Seventeenth Centuries
• 5. Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Turks and the Shaping of the Turkic Peoples
• 6. Early Loan Words in Western Central Asia: Indicators of Substrate Populations, Migrations, and Trade Relations
• 7. Textiles as a Medium of Exchange in Third Millennium B.C.E. Western Asia
• 8. Cultural and Political Control in North China: Style and Use of the Bronzes of Yan at Liulihe during the Early Western Zhou
• 9. Biological Evidence for Pre-Columbian Transoceanic Voyages
• Contributors
• Index