Bibliography

Project Bibliography

Below is a non-comprehensive list of scholarship that may provide examples and inspiration for the initiative. Participants are encouraged to suggest more works for inclusion via email to: onaltarsofsoil(at)gmail.com.

Adamski, Susanne. Die Darstellung des Bogenschießens in Bronzeinschriften der West-Zhou-Zeit (1045–771 v. Chr.): Eine philologische Quellenanalyse. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2017.

Allan, Sarah. Buried Ideas: Legends of Abdication and Ideal Government in Early Chinese Bamboo-Slip Manuscripts. Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.

Andrén, Anders. Between Artifacts and Texts: Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective. New York: Springer, 1998.

Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke University Pres, 2010.

Berlatsky, Eric L. The Real, the True, and the Told: Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2011.

Black, Jeremy. Contesting History: Narratives of Public History. London, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.

Bodenhamer, David J. et al., eds. Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.

Breisach, Ernst. Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2007 (1983).

Brindley, Erica. Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 BCE–50 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Burton, Antoinette, ed. Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History. Duke University Press, 2005.

Chang, K.C. “Archaeology and Chinese historiography.” World Archaeology 13.2 (1981), 156-169.

Chin, Tamara T. Savage Exchange: Han Imperialism, Chinese Literary Style, and the Economic Imagination. Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series 94. Harvard University Press, 2020.

Davis, Lloyd. Guise and Disguise: Rhetoric and Characterization in the English Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Evasdottir, Erika E.S. Obedient Autonomy: Chinese Intellectuals and the Achievement of Orderly Life. UBC Press, 2004.

Falkenhausen, Lothar von. “On the historiographical orientation of Chinese archaeology.” Antiquity 67 (1993), 839-849.

Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage, 1994 (1970).

--- The Archaeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New York: Pantheon (Tavistock), 1972.

Frachetti, M.D., and R. Spengler, eds. Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas. New York: Springer, 2015.

Gerrish, Jennifer. Sallust’s Histories and Triumviral Historiography: Confronting the End of History. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2019.

Graeber, David, and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. Allen Lane, 2021.

Gramsch, Alexander. “’Reflexiveness’ in archaeology, nationalism, and Europeanism.” Archaeological Dialogues 7.1 (2000), 4-19.

Grethlein, Jonas, and Christopher B. Krebs. Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The ‘Plupast’ from Herodotus to Appian.

Gu Jiegang 顧頡剛, Lü Simian 呂思勉, Luo Genze 羅根澤, and Tong Shuye 童書業. Gushi bian 古史辨. 7 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai guji, 1982-.

Guo Jue. Becoming Chu: A Deep History of Identity Formation in Early China. Forthcoming.

Hodgkin, Katharine, and Susannah Radstone, eds. Regimes of Memory. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

Jablonka, Ivan (Nathan J. Bracher, tr.). History is a Contemporary Literature: A Manifesto for the Social Sciences. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018.

Jaffe, Yitzchak, Qiaowei Wei, and Yichao Zhao. “Foodways and the Archaeology of Colonial Contact: Rethinking the Western Zhou Expansion in Shandong.” American Anthropologist 120 (2018), 55-71.

Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.

Jenkins, Keith. At the Limits of History: Essays on Theory and Practice. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2009.

Khayutina, Maria. “Marital Alliances and Affinal Relatives (Sheng and Hungou) in the Society and Politics of Zhou China in the Light of Bronze Inscriptions.” Early China 2014, 1-61.

Kleinberg, Ethan. Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017.

Lai, Guolong. “Digging up China: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Regionalism in the Yinxu Excavation, 1928-1937.” In Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archeology: Vocabulary, Symbols, and Legacy, ed. Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai. UCLA: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2018, 83-119.

Li, Feng. Landscape and Power in Early China: The Crisis and Fall of the Western Zhou, 1045-771 BC. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

---           Bureaucracy and the State in Early China: Governing the Western Zhou. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Liu, Li. “A History of Chinese Archaeology.” In Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology, ed. Junko Habu, Peter V. Lape, and John W. Olsen. New York: Springer, 2017.

Malina, Jaroslav, and Zdeněk Vašíček (Marek Zvelebil, tr. and ed.). Archaeology yesterday and today: The development of archaeology in the sciences and humanities. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

McCullagh, C. Behan. The Logic of History: Putting Postmodernism in Perspective. London, New York: Routledge, 2004.

Meyer, Dirk. Documentation and Argument in Early China: The Shangshu (Venerated Documents) and the “Shu” Traditions. Library of Sinology 5. De Gruyter Mouton, 2021.

Milburn, Olivia. Cherishing Antiquity: The Cultural Construction of an Ancient Chinese Kingdom. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.

Miller, Allison. Kingly Splendor: Court Art and Materiality in Han China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Munslow, Alan. Rhetoric and History. Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Murray, Tim, and Matthew Spriggs. “The historiography of archaeology: exploring theory, contingency and rationality.” World Archaeology 49.2 (2017), 151-157.

Na’aman, Nadav. “Does Archaeology Really Deserve the Status of a ‘High Court’ in Biblical Historical Research?” In Between Evidence and Ideology: Essays on the History of Ancient Israel Read at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Old Testament Study and the Oud Testamentisch Werkgezelschap Lincoln, July 2009, ed. Bob E.J.H. Becking and Lester Grabbe. Leiden: Brill, 2011, 165-183.

Netting, Robert McC. Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture. Stanford University Press, 1993.

Piterberg, Gabriel. An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2003.

Pohl, Walter, and Veronika Wieser, eds. Historiography and Identity I: Ancient and Early Christian Narratives of Community. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.

Ricoeur, Paul (Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer, tr.). Time and Narrative. 3 vols. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990-.

Roberts, Geoffrey, ed. The History and Narrative Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2001.

Schmaus, T.M., C. Chang, and P.A. Tourtellotte. “A Model for Pastoral Mobility in Iron Age Kazakhstan.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 17 (2018), 137-143.

Shaughnessy, Edward L. Rewriting Early Chinese Texts. Albany: SUNY Press, 2006.

Speight, Allen, ed. Narrative, Philosophy and Life. Dordrecht et al.: Springer, 2015.

Sterk, Andrea, and Nina Caputo, eds. Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014.

Summerfield, Penny. Histories of the Self. Personal Narratives and Historical Practice. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2018.

Thorp, Robert L. China in the Early Bronze Age: Shang Civilization. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Vogt, Paul Nicholas. Kingship, Ritual, and Royal Ideology in Western Zhou China. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.

White, Hayden. Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 (1973).

--- The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

--- (Robert Doran, ed.) The Fiction of Narrative: Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1957-2007. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.

Zerubavel, Eviatar. Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Chicago, London: University of Chicago Press, 2003.