부산대학교 도서관

Drawing on later ethnohistorical and iconographic accounts of tribal chieftains, Chapter 5 discusses the circulation of bronze drums and cowries in these mounds in relation to a system of exchange that developed between highland and valley groups. More than an expansion of social networks, local genealogical histories and wealth transmission became enmeshed in the history of these political-economic tributary transactions. Two temporal frames are thus brought into play at death—a commitment to renewing local landscapes of mounds and the external dependencies that elevate, mark, and perpetuate lineage stratification. Arguing against views of an endemically isolated topography, chapter 5 delineates, on the eve of Han conquest, an interconnected highland geography where concepts of space and time transcend their locality and are increasingly conditioned by a political history driven by the king of Dian.