Animal Classification in Central China: From the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age - Couverture souple

Dong, Ningning

 
9781407357928: Animal Classification in Central China: From the late Neolithic to the early Bronze Age
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1407357921 ISBN 13 : 9781407357928
Editeur : BAR Publishing, 2021

Synopsis

This monograph uses an archaeological approach to decipher folk classification of animals in ancient societies. Ningning Dong collates faunal data from three late Neolithic and early Bronze Age sites in central China and integrates multiple lines of evidence. The analyses demonstrate a folk taxonomy remarkably different from the Linnaean system. The results show that age might have served as a critical categorical filter, particularly in ritual contexts, and that the wild/domesticated dichotomy was established no earlier than the Shang dynasty. This perceptual distinction is unlikely to have been synchronised with the initial occurrence of domestication in the early Neolithic. Animal categories constituted a vital part of a broader classificatory scheme that concerned the organisation of the cosmos as a whole. This book enriches our understanding of animal categories in ancient China and further discusses the tension between etics and emics, language and action, domestic and wild.

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Éditeur
BAR Publishing
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1407357921
ISBN 13 
9781407357928
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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