Tokens of Immortality in Han Graves

Seidel, Anna

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“…Although he does not claim infallibility in treating the sick, his individual 5 The scholarly literature on Chinese ideas of the self, mind, body and spirit, drawing not just on textual evidence but on the mortuary practices brought to light by archaeology, is immense. See, for example, Seidel 1982, Yu Ying-shih 1987, Poo 1990, Ames 1993, Brashier 1996, Harper 1998, Goldin 2003, Csikszentmihalyi 2004, Despeux 2007, Lo 2008, Yu Ning 2009, Slingerland and Chudek 2011 Some studies pay explicit attention to the similarities and differences between Chinese, Greek and later European ideas (Kuriyama 1999, King 2006, Slingerland 2013, Raphals 2015. However, the very complexity of the data concerning the explicit or implicit theories adopted, ranging from ontologically based dualism to monistic or holistic conceptions, entirely rules out any simple opposition between Greek and Chinese cultures.…”

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Expanding Horizons in the History of Science

Lloyd¹

2021

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This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems.

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