Author: LAUFER, BERTHOLD
Title: Jade: A Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion
Description: Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A. 1912, 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover; 16.5 x 23.5 cm.; 1.5 Kg ; 370 pages with 68 plates, 6 of which in colour and 204 text figures.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. Some yellowing throughout. Sticker glued to bottom of the interior back cover.; Publication 154 of Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropological Series, Volume X. The Mrs. T. B. Blackstone Expedition.; "At the close of the year 1907 the Field Museum honored me with the task of carrying on research and making collections in Tibet and China for a period of three years, extending from 1908 too 1910, under and endowment liberally provided by Mrs. T. B. Blackstone. The results of the expedition, accordingly, cover two distinct fields - and ethnological collection bearing on Tibet and neighboring regions, inclusive of an abundance of material relative to Lamaism (paintings, images, masks, objects of the cult), and an extensive collection illustrating the archaeology of China. The latter has been planned in such a way as to afford an insight into the development of all phases of life in China's past. In conformity with the tendency of this Institution, this group of collections is not by any means intendend to illustrate the development of art but of culture in China. The results of the work on Tibet are designed to be brought out in six volumes. It has been proposed to work up the Chinese material in a series of monographs, the first instalment of which is this publication. The mortuary clay figures, the bronze and iron age of China, Buddishm stone sculpture, are the subjects comtemplated for the next issues. This volume does not pretend to be a contribution to sinology. Its general scope is explained in the Introduction. Written, in the first place, to furnish the necessary information on the jade collection ion the Field Museum, it applies to students of archaeology and religion in that it furnishes a great deal of new material and research on the early development of religious and artistic thought in ancient China. All specimens, with the exception of the jade book on Plate XVI, are in the Field Museum and form part of the Mrs. T. B. Blackstone collection. " excerpt from the preface by Bertold Laufer, Associate Curator of Asiatic Ethnology. Good/No Jacket.

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