A Deconstructive Analysis of K. C. Chang's Shamanic Approach in Chinese Archaeology
نام نخستين پديدآور
Feng Qu
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
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متن يادداشت
The hypothesis of ancient Chinese shamanism popularized by K. C. Chang in the 1980s has long been one of the central problems in the study of Chinese archaeology. By examining the structures that constitute Chang's shamanic framework, this article argues that the problem centers around two major issues. The first is that Chang follows a tradition in Chinese academic historiography of using late historical texts to interpret Neolithic and Bronze Age materials. The second is that, in order to explore the dynamics of the formation of Chinese civilization, he employs Western theories in his construction of the history of shamanism. This article discusses the problems associated with using textual materials for interpretations of archaeological finds. It also discusses "substratum theory," the way in which it influenced Chang's understanding of shamanic civilization, and the manner in which Western anthropological theory was incorporated into Chang's historiographical model. Accordingly, the author concludes that this shamanism problem in Chinese archaeology actually stems from a mixture of the Chinese historiographical tradition and Western anthropological theories, which together make Chang's writing develop a meta-narrative that leads directly to two characteristics: generalization and polymorphism.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2017
توصيف ظاهري
497-544
عنوان
Numen
شماره جلد
64/5-6
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5276
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Chinese archaeology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
historiography
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
K. C. Chang
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion in Antiquity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
shamanism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
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