The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices

About this book

Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.

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Yes, you can access The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices by Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele, Natalia Elvira Astoreca in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Archaeology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Oxbow Books
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781789254792
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Archaeology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of contributors
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Abbreviations
  8. 1. Introduction: writing practices in socio-cultural context: Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele and Natalia Elvira Astoreca
  9. 2. Towards a social archaeology of writing practices: Philip J. Boyes
  10. 3. The lives of inscribed commemorative objects: the transformation of private personal memory in Mesopotamian temple contexts: Nancy Highcock
  11. 4. A cognitive archaeology of writing: concepts, models, goals: Karenleigh A. Overmann
  12. 5. The materiality of the Cretan Hieroglyphic script: textile production-related referents to hieroglyphic signs on seals and sealings from Middle Bronze Age Crete: Marie-Louise Nosch and Agata Ulanowska
  13. 6. Visual dimensions of Maya hieroglyphic writing: meanings beyond the surface: Christian M. Prager
  14. 7. Visibility of runic writing and its relation to Viking Age Society: Julia-Sophie Heier
  15. 8. Words beyond writings: how to decrypt the secret writings of the masters of psalmody (Yunnan, China)?: AurƩlie NƩvot
  16. 9. A script ā€˜good to drinkā€™. The invention of writing systems among the Sora and other tribes of India: CĆ©cile Guillaume-Pey
  17. 10. Why did people in medieval Java use so many different script variants?: A.J. West
  18. 11. Cultures of writing: rethinking the ā€˜spreadā€™ and ā€˜developmentā€™ of writing systems in the Bronze Age Mediterranean: Theodore Nash
  19. 12. Script, image and culture in the Maya world: a southeastern perspective: Kathryn M. Hudson and John S. Henderson
  20. 13. Writing and elite status in the Bronze Age Aegean: Sarah Finlayson
  21. 14. Why Ī¼Īµ? Personhood and agency in the earliest Greek inscriptions (800ā€“550 BC): James Whitley
  22. 15. Names and authorship in the beginnings of Greek alphabetic writing: Natalia Elvira Astoreca
  23. 16. Marking identity through graphemes? A new look at the Sikel arrow-shaped alpha 303: Olga Tribulato and Valentina Mignosa
  24. Bibliography