AAS 2020 panels related to Asian environmental humanities

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Bovines and People: Animal-Human Intimacies in an Inter-Regional Context

7:30 pm-9:15 pm

Organizer: Bradley Davis

Katherine Brunson (Wesleyan). "Archaeological Evidence for the Origins of Domesticated Cattle and Water Buffalo in China."

Peter Braden (UCSD). "Bovine Consumers in China's Energy Economy, 1936-1961."

Cassie Adcock (Washington University, St. Louis). "Good Breeding and the Cow Nation: Cattle Improvement in Colonial India."

Bradley C. Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University). "Grand Theft Buffalo: Bubalus bubalis and Property Law in Nineteenth Century Vietnam."

Worlds Transformed: Social and Environmental Change on Southeast Asian Mining Frontiers

7:30 pm-9:15 pm

Organizer: Thuy Linh Nguyen

Natasha Pairaudeau (Cambridge). "Borderland Corundrum: Kula Gem Mining at the Siam-Indochina Frontier."

Thuy Linh Nguyen (Mount Saint Mary College). "Coal, Water and Environmentalism in French Colonial Vietnam."

Nancy Peluso (Berkeley). "Laboring for Territory in Two "Golden” Ages."

Oliver Tappe (Hamburg). "Tin Mining in Laos: Labor, Livelihoods and Sociocosmological Relations."

From Nourishing Life to National Nutrition: 

Diet and Health in Japanese History

7:30 pm-9:15 pm

Organizer: Joshua Schlachet

Joshua Schlachet (Arizona). ""Drowning in the Desires of the Mouth and Stomach": Diet and the Social Body in Nineteenth Century Japan."

W. Evan Young (Dickinson College). "Culinary Caregiving: Illness, Healing, and Diet in Early Modern Japan."

Kim Brandt (Columbia). "From Shokuyô to Macrobiotics: Postimperial Wellness in Transwar Japan and the World.” 

Nathan Hopson (Nagoya University). "Nutrition as National Defense: State-Sponsored Nutritional Activism in Japan, 1920-1940."

Friday, March 20, 2020

Eating Inedibles: Rethinking Foods in Asian STS

9:00-10:45 am

Organizer: Lan Li

Jia-Hui Lee (MIT). "Cyber Organs: How Electric Noses and Artificial Tongues Determine Edibility."

Tristan Revells (Columbia). "Fire Wine and Spurious Liquors: Regulating Alcohol in Republican China (1910-1932)."

Anthony Acciavatti (Yale). "Knotty Materials: Edible Soy Proteins in the War on Hunger."

Lan Li (Rice). "Neither Pepper nor Corn: The Chemistry of Numbness in Mountain Peppercorn."

Victoria Lee (Ohio). "On the Edibility of Kōji in the Age of Cancer."

The Environmental Legacies of the Mongol Empire in Eastern Eurasia

11:15 am-1:00pm

Organizer: John Lee

George L. Kallander (Syracuse). "Case Study on the Hunt: Early Chosŏn Kings in a Post-Mongol World."

John S. Lee (Durham). "From Equine Frontier to Agrarian Bureaucracy: Mongol Ranches and Environmental Transitions in Chosŏn Korea."

Ian Matthew Miller (St. John’s). "Post-Mongol Tributary Economies and the Ming Empire in Southwest China."

Danielle Ross (Utah State). "Who Gets Father’s Pasture?: The Persistence of Chinggisid Inheritance Practices in the Kazakh Steppe, 1730s-1910s."

The Science of Plague in Asia: from Beijing to Bursa

11:15 am-1:00pm

Organizer: David N. Luesink

David N. Luesink (Sacred Heart). "Making Laboratory Science in China: The Manchurian Plague Prevention Service, 1912-1932."

Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers). "Plague Periodization Revisited: The Ottoman Empire between the Black Death and the Plague of Hong Kong."

Timothy Brook (UBC). "The Globalization of Yersinia Pestis: Is China Part of this History?"

Recovery, Reconstruction, and Resilience: Nine Years from the 3/11 Tohoku Triple Disasters

1:30-3:15 pm

Organizer: Daniel Aldrich

Peter Matanle (Sheffield). "Building Resilience to Disasters in the Era of Climate Change: Has Japan Sufficiently Imagined the Next Tsunami in Tōhoku?"

Kanako Iuchi (Tohoku). "Large scale rezoning in Tohoku – Rebuilding processes and preliminary results."

Florence Lahournat (Kyoto). "The vulnerabilities of resilience building."

Anna Vainio (Sheffield). "Recovery, Reconstruction and Resilience in Tohoku: After the Tsunami."

Beyond the Slogan of “Green Sikkim”: Transecological and Transdimensional Relatedness in the Landscapes of Sikkim

1:30-3:15 pm 

Organizer: Kalzang D. Bhutia

Kalzang D. Bhutia (UCLA). "Living in the forest, living with the forest: Negotiation and acknowledgement in the Green Medical traditions of west Sikkim."

Rongnyoo Lepcha (Sikkim). "Multiple meanings of mountains in Sikkim."

Mabel Gergan (Florida State). "Sacred claims and territory-making in India’s eastern Himalayan frontier."

The Vanishing River and its Protest Movement by the People of Teesta Valley of 

Sikkim, Dzongu.

Political Economy of Water in Modern India and China: New Approaches with Meteorological Database and Spatial Analyses

1:30-3:15 pm

Organizer: Tomoko Shiroyama

Takeshi Hamashita 濱下武志 (The Oriental Library). "Meteorological change and the water system of Yangtze River at Hankou: 1870-1900."

Michihiro Ogawa (Kanazawa). "Reconsideration of the Great Famine (1876-1878) in Western India Using Datasets of Meteorology and Mortality. 

Chang Liu (Tokyo). "Reconstruction of hydrological environment in Yangtze River basin in 1923~1955 and its application on modern Chinese history research."

Seemanta Sharma Bhagabati (Tokyo). "Reconstruction of the Great Famine of western India using hydrological model by improving historical reanalysis dataset with limited observed data."

Scratching the Surface of Fluff: Exploring the Ecological, Moral, Cultural and Geopolitical Dimensions of Japanese Food

1:30-3:15 pm

Organizer: Katarzyna J. Cwiertka

Aya Kimura (Hawaii). "Food and Preservation of Agrobiodiversity: Political ecology of tsukemono (pickles)."

Whitelaw Gavin (Harvard). "Food Loss and the Moral Economy of Konbini Ownership."

Samuel H. Yamashita (Pomona College). "The Geopolitical and Cultural Significance of the “Japanese Turn” in Fine Dining in the United States." 

Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (Leiden). "The Myth of Washoku: Tweaking of History for the Nation-Branding Agenda."

Displaced in the Anthropocene: The Unfolding Climate-induced Migrant Crisis in Asia
3:45-5:30 pm

Organizer: Tani Sebro

Chair: Judith Shapiro

Discussants: 

Anthony D. Medrano

Kevin McGahan

Tani Sebro

Wolfram Dressler

Communities at Work: Reappraisals of Local Autonomy in Late Qing and Early Republican China

3:45-5:30 pm 

Organizer: Sarah Yu

James Lin (Washington). "Agricultural Science, Reform, and Imaginings of a Modern Agrarian China, 1911-1945."

Sarah X. Yu (UPenn). "From Plague Control to Public Health: Global-Local Collaborations in Shanxi, 1917—1928."

Joohee Suh (Xavier). "Protecting the Dead’s Home: Communal Efforts of Managing Dead Bodies in Late-Qing Shanghai."

Lei Duan (Michigan). "Sanctioned Violence and Local Power: Private Gun Ownership in Early Republican Guangdong."

Photography, History, and Ecology: 

Composing China's Modern Landscapes

3:45-5:30 pm

Organizer: Shirley Ye

Shirley Ye (Birmingham). "Engineering Landscapes: Photography, Water, and Narrative."

Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology). "Old Photos (Lao Zhaopian): Memory, Reflection, and Voice of the Everyday People."

William Schaefer (Durham). "Photography, Emergence, and Form: Wang Youshen's and Birdhead's Urban Ecological Mosaics."

Yajun Mo (Boston College). "Science and Fantasy: Photography and the Visualization of the Sino-Tibetan Frontiers."

Environment and Crisis in Northeast Asia

3:45-5:30 pm

Dreaming of a Sentient Land: Ecofeminism and Crises of Embodiment in Han Kang's The Vegetarian

Transnational hazard: A history of asbestos industry and responsibility in South Korea

Environmental Catastrophes of the Korean War

Japan’s Imagined Pelagic Empire: A Study of the Historical Development of 

Imperialistic Discourse about Japanese Northern Sea (Hokuyō) Fisheries during the Interwar Years

Environmentalisms and Nonhuman Histories in Modern and Contemporary Japan

7:30-9:15 pm

Organizer: Livia Monnet

Livia R. Monnet (UdeM). "A Radical Ecology of Indefinite Alterlife: Post-Anthropocene Worlds and In/Nonhuman Agency in Seto Momoko's Experimental Short Films."

Margherita Long (UC, Irvine). "Care, Affect, Pedagogy: The Eco-Documentary of Iwasaki Masanori."

Christine Marran (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities). "Climate change and the Japanese modern novel."

Thomas Lamarre (Duke). "Colonies: A Bacterial History of (Japanese) Empire."

Saturday, March 21, 2020

The Politics of Imagining China’s Environment: A Historical Itinerary

9:00-10:45 am

Organizers: Wen-Yi Huang & Kathy Mak

Wen-Yi Huang. "Making Mountains: Environment and Migratory Experience in Fourth-through-Sixth Century China."

Kathy Mak (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University). "Reimaging Landscape: Water Control and the Ecotopia in Song Wenzhi’s Painting."

Elizabeth Lord (Brown). "The Polluting Other: Narrating China’s Environmental ‘Crisis’."

Discussant: Corey Byrnes (Northwestern)

Chair: Ling Zhang (Boston College)

磚画・壁画からみた魏晋時代の河西

Editors:
關尾史郎 (Sekio Shiro)、
町田隆吉 (Machida, Takayoshi)

Publication date:
September 2019

Publisher:
汲古書院

Table of Contents:

はしがき/關尾史郎

第一部　総　論

河西各地の魏晋墓出土画像磚について――出土資料の問題点と今後の展望――/北村　永

河西磚画墓とその時代――新城墓群を中心として――/關尾史郎

敦煌祁家湾古墓出土「五胡十六国」時代の磚画をめぐって――敦煌地区における来世観とその周辺――/町田隆吉

魏晋時代河西の壁画墓と壁画の一面――遼陽との比較を通して――/三﨑良章

第二部　各　論

河西出土文物から見た朝服制度の受容と変容――魏晋・五胡期、胡漢混淆地帯における礼制伝播のあり方――/小林　聡

魏晋時代の河西にみられる楽器――琵琶系楽器・琴瑟系楽器・洞簫系楽器を中心に――/荻　美津夫

画像資料に見る魏晋時代の武器――河西地域を中心として――/内田宏美

甘粛省河西地方出土の犂耕関係画像一覧（稿）/渡部　武

引用文献目録

あとがき（町田隆吉）

[Dissertation] Weathering History: Storms, State, and Society in South China since the Fifth Century CE

Author:
Alejandrino, Clark L.

School:
Georgetown University

Defended:
2019

Abstract:

My dissertation looks at typhoons in the history of the richest, most populous, and most typhoon-prone province of China: Guangdong. It considers political, social, cultural, and environmental aspects of typhoons from the fifth to the twentieth century and argues that successive states and generations of Chinese that occupied the province’s littoral regarded it as a "typhoon space." The real and perceived vulnerability of the Guangdong littoral inspired efforts at community- and state-building that had many consequences. In exploring the deep consciousness of storms and the social structures they inspired in a major part of China, I will contribute to both climate history and Chinese history by reimagining the spatial frameworks within which we study human interactions with the environment.

My project takes seriously the constructed nature of the Guangdong littoral as a "typhoon space" and its location in a tropical cyclone basin, arguing that its perceived vulnerability to storms across centuries was as influential in shaping its history as was the destructive force of the storms that so often came ashore. By delineating specific spaces where climatic phenomena have a deep influence on human society and culture, my project facilitates the reimagining of China, and even the world, as consisting of discrete, but at times overlapping, climate spaces. These, crucially, would not be the same as climate regions as understood by climatologists and enshrined in countless maps. Rather, they would be based both on climatic phenomena and social, cultural, and political structures that evolved to cope with climate features. Since climate spaces do not neatly coincide with the nation, province, or other familiar spatial categories, my project invites a rethinking of space in Chinese history and more globally in environmental history. Thinking in terms of climate spaces also eases comparisons by providing a common language for speaking about similar phenomena across the globe. For example, we can think of typhoon spaces in the Western Pacific and hurricane spaces in the Caribbean as comparable "storm spaces" within a transnational history of wind, water, risk, and response. It is my hope that reimagining coastal China as a typhoon space and thinking more broadly in terms of climate spaces may serve as catalysts for advancing both global environmental history and the underdeveloped field of Chinese climate history.

Early Medieval China 25 《中國中古研究》第25期 (2019)

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Special Issue: Essays in Honor of Albert E. Dien’s Scholarly Contributions to the Study of the Northern Dynasties on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday

Guest Editors: Jonathan K. Skaff and Scott Pearce

Editors’ Note
JONATHAN K. SKAFF AND SCOTT PEARCE

ARTICLES

Albert E. Dien: A Short Biography of a Scholarly Explorer
JONATHAN KARAM SKAFF

Albert Dien’s Contribution to Study of the Northern Dynasties
SCOTT PEARCE

The Nature of the Hu: Wuhuan and Xianbei Ethnography in the San Guo Zhi and Hou Han Shu
NINA DUTHIE

A Preliminary Study of the Lacquerware of the Northern Dynasties, with a Special Focus on the Pingcheng Period (398–493)
SHING MÜLLER

Tribute, Hostages, and Marriage Alliances: A Close Reading of Diplomatic Strategies in the Northern Wei Period
ARMIN SELBITSCHKA

The Use and Understanding of Domestic Animals in Early Medieval Northern China
KEITH N. KNAPP

Priests and Other Xian 祆 Ritual Performers in Medieval China
PÉNÉLOPE RIBOUD

Bibliography of Albert E. Dien Since 2008

(via Michael Farmer)

六朝江南道教の研究: 陸修静の霊宝経観と古霊宝経

Author:
林 佳恵 (Hayashi Kae)

Publisher:
Waseda University Press

Publication date:
March 2019

Table of Contents:

序　論
　第1節　序言（先行研究史）　　
　第2節　問題の所在　　
　第3節　研究の方法　　

第1篇　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」における経典の分類
　第1章　陸修静による霊宝経典の分類
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」の分類と「元始系」・「仙公系」の不一致 　　
　　第3節　陸修静の考える「元始旧経」　　
　　第4節　「元始旧経」と紫微宮秘蔵の経の関係 　　
　　第5節　紫微宮秘蔵の経の条件 　　
　　第6節　『太上洞玄靈寶眞文要解上巻』の分類　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第2章　陸修静の霊宝経観と『太上洞玄靈寶天文五符經序』の分類
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　陸修静が示す霊宝経の二つの系統 　　
　　第3節　「霊宝経目序」に見える陸修静の霊宝経観 　　
　　第4節　『太上洞玄靈寶天文五符經序』の分類 　　
　　第5節　陸修静の霊宝経分類における「太上」の位置付け　　
　　第6節　『太上太極太虚上眞人演太上靈寶威儀洞玄眞一自然經訣』の分類 　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第3章　陸修静の霊宝経観と「舊目」の解釈
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　陸修静の霊宝経典の分類結果と「舊目」の解釈　　
　　第3節　「篇目」の「未出」経典と「未出」の意味 　　
　　第4節　小　　結　　

第2篇　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」の分類カテゴリーの検証
　第4章　霊宝経における新旧の概念の形成
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　霊宝経における陸修静の新旧の概念　　
　　第3節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」著録経典中の「新経」の概念　　
　　第4節　敦煌本「霊宝経目録」著録経典中の「元始旧経」の概念　　
　　第5節　霊宝経典中の「舊」の語の意味　　
　　第6節　小　　結　　
　第5章　「十部妙經」と「元始旧経」
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　「十部妙經」に言及する「元始旧経」中の経典 　　
　　第3節　「十部妙經」の設定　　
　　第4節　「十部妙經」と「十方」の観念　　
　　第5節　「十部妙經三十六巻」の検証　　
　　第6節　小　　結　　
　第6章 分類の為のカテゴリーとしての「元始旧経」と「仙公新経」
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　「元始旧経」の検証　　
　　第3節 「仙公新経」の検証 　　
　　第4節 「仙公新経」と「元始旧経」で共通する戒 　　
　　第5節　小　　結　　

第3篇　陸修静の霊宝経観
　第7章　霊宝経と天師道
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節　霊宝経中の『道德五千文』への言及　　
　　第3節 「靈寶齋」と「三天齋」　　
　　第4節　霊宝経典中の天師張道陵　　
　　第5節 霊宝経典中の天師道の神々　　
　　第6節 「元始旧経」に見える「發爐」　　
　　第7節　小　　結　　
　第8章　陸修静の霊宝経観の形成
　　第1節　序　　言　　
　　第2節 「靈寶經目序」中の霊宝経観の形成にかかわる霊宝経典　　
　　第3節 「靈寶經目序」に見える陸修静独自の霊宝経観　　
　　第4節 『太上洞玄靈寶授度儀』の「師告丹水文」中の霊宝経に関する言及の考察　
　　第5節　陸修静の霊宝経観の継承　
　　第6節 小　　結　

[Dissertation] Writing and Materiality in the Three Han Dynasty Tombs at Mawangdui

Author:
Waring, Luke

School:
Princeton University

Defended:
2019

Abstract:

This dissertation is a study of the different kinds of writing excavated in the 1970s from the three Western Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) tombs at Mawangdui 馬王堆, including manuscripts on silk, wood, and bamboo, and inscriptions in different media. I examine the ways these texts were produced, performed, used, viewed, and buried in order to determine the different roles writing played in the lives and afterlives of three members of one noble family, and those connected to them, in the second century BCE. In the process, I show that in addition to recording or communicating important knowledge or information, written texts were also incorporated into a diverse array of artifacts and integrated into a wide variety of cultural practices, and that writing in early Western Han thus ought to be understood as part of early Chinese material and visual culture.

The Introduction provides an overview of the Mawangdui tombs and their contents, including the manuscripts and texts that were found there, as well as recent scholarship on writing, literacy, and material culture. Chapter 1 is concerned with the different ways the Mawangdui manuscripts and inscriptions were produced. Chapter 2 explores how some of the manuscripts were used in ritual performance and display. Chapter 3 describes the use of written texts as amulets and talismans. Chapter 4 details the visual effects of certain kinds of manuscripts. And Chapter 5 speculates about the ways the manuscripts were used and stored above ground, and why they were deposited in the tomb. Finally, my Conclusion summarizes my findings, and the Appendix provides a table containing information about the material and codicological features of the Mawangdui manuscripts and related artifacts.


Table of Contents:

Introduction – Writing, Materiality, and Mawangdui 

Chapter 1 – Producing Texts: The Materiality of Textual Production at Mawangdui

Chapter 2 – Performing Texts: Writing in Rituals and Ceremonies

Chapter 3 – The Materiality of the Sign: Texts as Amulets and Talismans

Chapter 4 – Visualizing Texts: The Visual Design of Texts on Silk

Chapter 5 – Owning Texts: From Library to Tomb

Early China 42 (2019) 《古代中國》第42期

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Obituaries

LIU ZEHUA 劉澤華 (1935–2018)
Yuri Pines

LI XUEQIN 李學勤 (1933–2019)
Liu Guozhong, Edmund Ryden

REMEMBRANCES OF LI XUEQIN (1933–2019)

Articles

“XI SHUAI” 蟋蟀 (“CRICKET”) AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: ISSUES IN EARLY CHINESE POETRY AND TEXTUAL STUDIES
Martin Kern

A SELF-REFLEXIVE PRAXIS: CHANGING ATTITUDES TOWARDS MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT IN EARLY CHINA
Rens Krijgsman

TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE: THE CHU CI 楚辭 (VERSES OF CHU) AS RESPONSE TO THE SHI JING 詩經 (CLASSIC OF ODES)
Michael Hunter

THE REIFICATION OF FATE IN EARLY CHINA
Mercedes Valmisa

INTERTEXTUALITY AND MEMORY IN EARLY CHINESE WRITINGS: A CASE STUDY FROM HUAINANZI
Oliver Weingarten

RU SCHOLARS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND BUREAUCRACY: DONGHAI 東海 MEN AND MODELS FOR SUCCESS IN WESTERN HAN CHINA (206 b.c.e.–9 c.e.)
Liang Cai

WRITING BEFORE INSCRIBING: ON THE USE OF MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PRODUCTION OF WESTERN ZHOU BRONZE INSCRIPTIONS
Ondřej Škrabal

Review

G. E. R. Lloyd and Jingyi Jenny Zhao, eds., in collaboration with Qiaosheng Dong, Ancient Greece and China Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Paul R. Goldin

Bibliography

DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS
Wen-Yi Huang, comp.

ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wen-Yi Huang, comp.

Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes

Editor:
Susan Whitfield

List of Contributors:
Peter Sellars, Idriss Abduressul, Alison Aplin Ohta, Warwick Ball, Bérénice Bellina, Arnaud Bertrand, Jonathan M. Bloom, Jean-Marc Bonnet-Bidaud, Robert Bracey, Sonja Brentjes, Ursula Brosseder, Cristina Castillo, Tamara T. Chin, Joe Cribb, Rebecca Darley, T. Daryaee, Sophie Desrosiers, Claire Dillon, K. Durak, John Falconer, Anna Filigenzi, Frantz Grenet, Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Anne Hedeager Krag, Julian Henderson, Georgina Hermann, B. Hildebrandt, P. P. Ho, Mark Horton, Susan L. Huntington, Karel C. Innemée, Jun Kimura, Elizabeth A. Lambourn, Lewis Lancaster, George Lane, Li Tang, Li Wenying, Xinru Liu, George Manginis, Kate Masia-Radford, James A. Millward, Sergey Miniaev, Noriko Miya, Valentina Mordvintseva, Davit Naskidashvili, Lukas Nickel, Jebrael Nokandeh, Luca M. Olivieri, Mehmet Ölmez, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi, Charles R. Ortloff, Sara Peterson, Marinus Polak, Gethin Rees, Nicolas Revire, W. K. Rienjang, Rong Xinjiang, Eberhard W. Sauer, Nikolaus Schindel, Angela Schottenhammer, Assaad Seif, Eivind Heldaas Seland, Angela Sheng, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Ursula Sims-Williams, Robert N. Spengler, Sarah Stewart, Ingo Strauch, Richard J. A. Talbert, Ilse Timperman, Marina Tolmacheva, Dmitry Voyakin, Rosalind Wade Haddon, Helen Wang, Wang Xudong, Daniel C. Waugh, Peter Webb, Peter Whitfield, Tim Williams, Paul D. Wordsworth, Zhao Feng

Publisher:
October 2019

Publisher:
University of California Press

Abstract:

The Silk Roads continue to capture the imagination of the public, and, in 2014, a section of the land routes was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Yet there was no single "Silk Road." Instead, a complex network of trade routes spanned Afro-Eurasia’s mountains, plains, deserts, and seas. From silk to spices, religion to dance, traffic in goods and ideas was crucial to the development of civilizations through rich cultural interactions and economic activity.

Centered around the dramatic landscapes of the Silk Roads, this beautiful volume honors the great diversity of medieval Afro-Eurasian cultures. Each section—from steppe to desert to ocean—includes maps, a historical and archaeological overview and thematic essays by leading scholars worldwide, as well as sidebars showcasing objects that exemplify the art, archaeology and architecture of the Silk Roads.

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photo credit:
Silk Road Digressions