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Focusing on jade ear ornaments dated c. 3000–2000 BCE, it traces how bodily modification—especially ear perforation and ornamentation—transformed the body into a site where material could be attached, arranged, and made visible.\u003cbr\u003eThrough detailed analysis of manufacturing traces, spatial positioning, and burial configurations, the study reconstructs a sequence of operations—perforation, nodality, amplification, variability, stabilization, and institutionalization—through which difference was generated, adjusted, and selectively fixed. In this process, visibility was not a secondary effect of social structure, but the condition through which difference became perceptible, repeatable, and socially operative.\u003cbr\u003eEvidence from sites such as Laoshan, Qubing, and Wanshan shows that these processes did not produce uniform outcomes. Instead, different configurations of bodily practice and mortuary arrangement shaped how visibility was amplified, limited, or fixed. In some contexts, difference was not expanded but selectively constrained, indicating that social differentiation could be maintained without continuous intensification or centralized hierarchy.\u003cbr\u003eBy grounding theoretical questions in material configurations, the book develops an archaeological approach in which visibility is understood not as representation, but as a process through which difference is produced, stabilized, and sometimes withdrawn. It will be of interest to scholars of archaeology, anthropology, material culture, and early social formations.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eBiography\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor(s):\u003c\/span\u003e \n\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSu-chiu Kuo is a Research Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Her research focuses on prehistoric Taiwan, material culture, and the archaeology of personhood, with particular emphasis on jade ornaments and mortuary practices.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis title is currently being reviewed. 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