HASTAC Commons | Armin Selbitschka | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/armin34/activity/ Activity feed for Armin Selbitschka. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:55:18 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4614f09d2bb1be5b6b36e959e235aaef Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group Performance Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775057/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:24:14 +0000 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ed2dfbfd173903d41d09f51013cc512 Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group Chinese Religions https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775056/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:24:13 +0000 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ed2dfbfd173903d41d09f51013cc512 Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group Chinese history, culture and language https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775055/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:24:13 +0000 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 caf943cc391876f918c82a80516477ce Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775054/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:23:45 +0000 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 6648ce54d3006e69de1ed0fa4ddfe078 Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites in the group Anthropology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1775053/ Fri, 18 Mar 2022 02:23:38 +0000 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 80442b70aea3fe3b760e202a97f5712c Armin Selbitschka deposited Sacrifice vs. Sustenance: Food as a Burial Good in Late Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Chinese Tombs and Its Relation [to] Funerary Rites https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774975/ Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:33:23 +0000 One of the medical manuscripts recovered from Tomb No. 3 at Mawangdui (dated 186 B.C.E.) states that, “When a person is born there are two things that need not to be learned: the first is to breathe and the second is to eat.” Of course it is true that all healthy newborn human beings possess the reflexes to breathe and eat. Yet, the imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 21bedbe65e04fcbbbbc4b4336981cac5 Armin Selbitschka deposited “’I Write, Therefore I Am’: Scribes, Literacy and Identity in Early China." https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1765309/ Fri, 07 Jan 2022 14:09:52 +0000 A recent article argued that “texts can be used as tools for enacting identities in social settings” (Reading Research Quarterly 44.4 (2009): 416). Considering the multitude of manuscripts yielded by fourth through first-centuries BCE burials, such a statement seems pertinent for early Chinese society as well. What does it say about the sel…[Read more]

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