UCSB Anthropology Brown Bag Lecture Series Presents:

From the Kinship State to the Rationalized State in Ancient China: Reflections on the Qin Dynasty and Before

By Dr. Mayfair Yang

The transition from the Chinese Bronze Age to the first centralized state of Qin in China (221-206 BCE) is a fascinating period where the fields of archaeology, history, philosophy and cultural anthropology meet. This period of the struggle between two philosophical schools of thought (the Confucian ritualists vs. the statist Legalists) coincides with the decline of bronze ritual vessels in the archaeological records. A cultural anthropologist tries to make sense of this period in light of 20th century China by writing what Foucault calls "a history of the present" (neither a history of the past nor a history to serve the present).



Tuesday October 13, 1998; 12:30 p.m.
HSSB 2001A, The Anthropology Conference Room

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