Flora and Fauna in the Afterlife: Japanese Decorated Tombs and their Symbolism
- Date: Apr 10, 2024
- Time: 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Claudia Zancan
- PhD student, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
- Location: MPI of Geoanthropology
- Room: Villa V14 and Zoom
- Host: Language and the Anthropocene Research Group
- Contact: hudson@gea.mpg.de
Claudia Zancan specialises in the art and archaeology of Japan, particularly in the funerary art of the decorated tombs of Northern Kyūshū. Her fields of research include: Kofun period, iconography and iconology in Kyūshū decorated tombs, Yellow Sea interactions, identity, style, symbolism, social meaning of pre-protohistoric visual art, and hybridization theory.