Bronze Art, Cultural Norms, and Group Identity: A Group of Late Western Zhou and Early Spring and Autumn He Vessels Analyzed in Their Temporal and Spatial Contexts

doi:10.1353/asi.2024.a923664

	Bronze Art, Cultural Norms, and Group Identity: A Group of Late Western Zhou and Early Spring and Autumn He Vessels Analyzed in Their Temporal and Spatial Contexts
	Hua, Xia 1,2; Shelach-Lavi, Gideon 2
	2024
发表期刊	ASIAN PERSPECTIVES-THE JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
ISSN	0066-8435
卷号	63 期号:1
摘要	A new generation of scholars has called into question the homogeneous nature of Western Zhou culture and the sweeping imposition of this culture over a large region that covers much of present-day China. Our study contributes to this debate by focusing on a coherent group of bronze vessels dated to the end of the Western Zhou and beginning of the Spring and Autumn periods. He ( (sic) ) vessels with drum -shaped bodies, bird -like lids, and human -like legs are among the most unique and artistically innovative artifacts of this period. While these unique artifacts have been found in and near the center of the Western Zhou polity, they are not associated with the rituals of the royal house, but rather with those of other aristocratic lineages. We argue that the artistic style of the vessels was part of the culture developed around the royal Zhou house and in areas close to it, although it is not strictly representative of the royal culture of the Western Zhou, being instead associated with minor lineages. A multi -dimensional analysis of this group of vessels, addressing their geographical distribution, location within their archaeological context, and social associations, combined with an analysis of their decorative scheme and the inscriptions cast inside them, enables us to better understand the sociocultural landscape of this period. Our study suggests that diversity existed not only in remote border areas or among the lower strata of society, but also within the cultural core of the Western Zhou polity and among the highest echelons of the aristocracy. Such processes of diversification are associated with the development of local and regional identities and with the growth of the political independence of aristocratic lineages during the final years of the transition from the Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn periods. K EYWORDS : homogeneous culture, ritual and identity, bronze art, he vessels, winged animal and human figurines, Western Zhou and Spring and Autumn periods.
DOI	10.1353/asi.2024.a923664
收录类别	AHCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS记录号	WOS:001241767400003
出版者	UNIV HAWAII PRESS
原始文献类型	Article
EISSN	1535-8283
引用统计	被引频次[WOS]：0 [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.library.ouchn.edu.cn/handle/39V7QQFX/171582
专题	国家开放大学江苏分部
通讯作者	Shelach-Lavi, Gideon
作者单位	1.Jiangsu Open Univ, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, Peoples R China; 2.Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Dept Asian Studies, Jerusalem, Israel
第一作者单位	国家开放大学江苏分部
第一作者的第一单位	国家开放大学江苏分部
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hua, Xia,Shelach-Lavi, Gideon. Bronze Art, Cultural Norms, and Group Identity: A Group of Late Western Zhou and Early Spring and Autumn He Vessels Analyzed in Their Temporal and Spatial Contexts[J]. ASIAN PERSPECTIVES-THE JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC,2024,63(1).
APA	Hua, Xia,&Shelach-Lavi, Gideon.(2024).Bronze Art, Cultural Norms, and Group Identity: A Group of Late Western Zhou and Early Spring and Autumn He Vessels Analyzed in Their Temporal and Spatial Contexts.ASIAN PERSPECTIVES-THE JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC,63(1).
MLA	Hua, Xia,et al."Bronze Art, Cultural Norms, and Group Identity: A Group of Late Western Zhou and Early Spring and Autumn He Vessels Analyzed in Their Temporal and Spatial Contexts".ASIAN PERSPECTIVES-THE JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC 63.1(2024).