Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with another captivating portrait through the experience of things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, recei...
Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with another captivating portrait through the experience of things. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas tells the stories of ten very different objects, considering their interaction with the peoples and cultures of the Silk Road—those who made them, carried them, received them, used them, sold them, worshipped them, and, in more recent times, bought them, conserved them, and curated them. From a delicate pair of earrings from a steppe tomb to a massive stupa deep in Central Asia, a hoard of Kushan coins stored in an Ethiopian monastery to a Hellenistic glass bowl from a southern Chinese tomb, and a fragment of Byzantine silk wrapping the bones of a French saint to a Bactrian ewer depicting episodes from the Trojan War, these objects show us something of the cultural diversity and interaction along these trading routes of Afro-Eurasia.
Exploring the labor, tools, materials, and rituals behind these various objects, Whitfield infuses her narrative with delightful details as the objects journey through time, space, and meaning. Silk, Slaves, and Stupas is a lively and unique approach to understanding the Silk Road and the cultural, economic, and technical changes of the late antiquity and medieval periods.
Susan Whitfield, author of Life Along the Silk Road, is a scholar, curator, writer, and traveler who has been exploring the history, art, religions, cultures, objects, exploration, and people of the Silk Road for the past three decades.
嚈哒人是谁？他们怎么看待自己，又怎样选择将自己置身于中亚的希腊化世界？同时代的其他国家怎么看待他们？他们会通过改造器物（如这件壶和钱币）来坚持自己的观念吗？魏义天（ La Vaissiere）认为他们没有很强的民族认同：“与那时所有的部落群体一样，他们是政治和氏族关系错综复杂的混合体，而不仅仅是一个族群和语言实体。”但这并不意味着其他人不会以一个族群来看待他们，也不意味着他们不会以此来定义自己，尤其在将自己与其他民族区分时。希安・琼斯（ Sian Jones）在她的族属研究中指出：“族属认同基于自我以及与他者之间变化不定的因势而异的和主观的认定。它植根于持续的日常实践与历史经验之中，但也易被改造和截断。
魏义天认为，4世纪时在巴克特里亚建立寄多罗政权的民族和所谓的噘哒人，可能都在4世纪下半叶的同一批次中从草原迁徙到了中亚，而不是像其他人认为的分数次迁徙。 (查看原文)
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