부산대학교 도서관

Chapter 3 begins to trace the coordinated acts of burial and mourning that bound the living to the dead during the Bronze Age. The chapter begins by situating emergent territorial politics within projects of mound building for the dead. Cycles of rebuilding and alignment along axial grids in the Qujing basin indicate that these were not eponymous monuments but interconnected, yet unfinished, places for the Mimo where future social relations were envisioned by a progressive scaling up of mounds. These building projects, though generative of new horizons, also formed the basis on which different corporate groups sought to distinguish ancestral memories and control the production of intergenerational time, in particular as certain local Mimo factions accrued wealth and prestige in tribal war.