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SUMMARY:The Politics of Animal Images in Iron-Age Nomadic Alliances: Case 
 Studies from China to Crimea - Petya Andreeva (The New School\, New York)
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CONTACT:Katie Campbell
DESCRIPTION:Petya Andreeva is an assistant professor of Asian art and desi
 gn history at the Parsons School of Art and Design\, The New School\, New 
 York. This lecture aims to contribute to the flourishing post-humanist dis
 course in Silk Road and Ancient Studies. The Iron-Age nomadic societies of
  the Eurasian steppe route produced and circulated metalworks and textiles
  adorned with images of counterintuitive composites. In nomadic visual rhe
 toric\, animal bodies existed in a perpetual state of flux and at the edge
  of cognitive chaos\, defying taxonomical classifications and biological c
 onventions. The talk will explore how and why nomadic artisans constructed
  an alternative biota that was filled with fantastic fauna rooted in a dis
 torted version of ecological reality. I will demonstrate that such zoomorp
 hic fabrications were the byproduct of a certain psychology of mobility an
 d the elite’s political aspirations in diverse and often reluctant polit
 ical alliances. This discussion will view animal-inspired images as viable
  contributors to the formation of collective memory and situational identi
 ty in early pastoral societies. Based on the speaker’s fieldwork\, the s
 tudy will present case studies from tombs and wealth deposits across North
  China\, Mongolia\, North Korea\, Kazakhstan\, South Russia\, Crimea\, Hun
 gary.
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