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Jade : a study in Chinese archaeology and religion

Laufer, Berthold 1874-1934 (author.).

Summary: The two minerals nephrite and jadeite, popularly comprised under the name jade, belong to the hardest and most cherished materials of which primitive man availed himself in shaping his chisels, hatchets, ornaments, amulets and many other implements. Such objects, partially of considerable antiquity, have been found in many parts of the world--in Asia, New Zealand, in prehistoric Europe and America. The geographical areas occupied by nephrite are so extended that it may almost be classified with flint as one of those mineral substances utilized to a large extent by a great number of peoples. Since the localities where nephrite occurs in nature seem to be difficult to discover, and since nephrite was known for a long time as coming only from Asia and New Zealand, and jadeite merely from certain districts of Asia, the scientific world was being held in long suspense by what is known as the nephrite question. -- Introduction.

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ISBN: 0486231232
ISBN: 9780486231235
Physical Description: print
xiv, 370 pages, 42 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1974.

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General Note:	Reprint of the 1912 ed. issued as publication no. 154 of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and Anthropological series, v. 10.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-360) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of illustrations -- Introduction -- I. Jade and other stone implements -- II. Jade symbols of sovereign power -- III. Astronomical instruments of Jade -- IV. Jade as writing-material -- V. Jade in religious worship -- the jade images of the cosmic deities -- VI. Jade coins and seals -- VII. Personal ornaments of jade -- VIII. Jade amulets of the dead -- IX. Jade objects used in dressing the corpse -- X. Jade carvings of fishes, quadrupeds and human figures in the grave -- XI. Vases of jade -- XII. Jade in eighteenth century -- Appendix I. Jade in Buddhist art -- Appendix II. The Nephrite question of Japan.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Original print also available online.