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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Silk, Slaves, and Stupas

By Susan Whitfield

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About the book

Following her bestselling Life Along the Silk Road, Susan Whitfield widens her exploration of the great cultural highway with a new captivating portrait focusing on material 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. Fro...Show more

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ISBN

9780520281776

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2018

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Edition

1

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Silk, Slaves, and Stupas

Format

Hardcover

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