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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520281776 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520281783 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9780520957664 (e-edition) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
AE-ShKH |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
DS33.1 |
| Item number |
.W46 2018 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Whitfield, Susan, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1960- |
| 9 (RLIN) |
9494 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas : |
| Remainder of title |
Material Culture of the Silk Road / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Susan Whitfiel. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Oakland, California : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
University of California Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 339 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill., color maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-312) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
A pair of steppe earrings -- A hellenistic glass bowl -- A hoard of Kushan coins -- Amluk Dara Stupa -- A Bactrian Ewer -- A Khotanese plaque -- The Blue Qur'an -- A Byzantine hunter silk -- A Chinese almanac -- The unknown slave. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"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"--Provided by publisher. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Silk Road |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
3167 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Asia |
| General subdivision |
Antiquities. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
9495 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Material culture |
| Geographic subdivision |
Silk Road. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
9496 |
