| Autore |
Boyes Philip J (Philip John)
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2021
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (385 pages)
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| Disciplina |
411.09
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
SteelePhilippa M. <1983->
AstorecaNatalia Elvira
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| Collana |
Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems
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| Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Writing
Social sciences
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| ISBN |
9781789254792
1789254795
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
List of contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: writing practices in socio-cultural context Philip J. Boyes, Philippa M. Steele and Natalia Elvira Astoreca -- 2. Towards a social archaeology of writing practicesPhilip J. Boyes -- 3. The lives of inscribed commemorative objects: the transformation of private personal memory in Mesopotamian temple contexts Nancy Highcock -- 4. A cognitive archaeology of writing: concepts, models, goals Karenleigh A. Overmann -- 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 -- 6. Visual dimensions of Maya hieroglyphic writing: meanings beyond the surface Christian M. Prager -- 7. Visibility of runic writing and its relation to Viking Age Society Sophie Heier -- 8. Words beyond writings: how to decrypt the secret writings of the masters of psalmody (Yunnan, China)? Aurelie NevotContents -- 9. A script 'good to drink'. The invention of writing systems among the Sora and other tribes of India Cecile Guillaume-Pey -- 10. Why did people in medieval Java use so many different script variants? A.J. West -- 11. Cultures of writing: rethinking the 'spread' and 'development' of writing systems in the Bronze Age Mediterranean Theodore Nash -- 12. Script, image and culture in the Maya world: a southeastern perspective Kathryn M. Hudson and John S. Henderson -- 13. Writing and elite status in the Bronze Age Aegean Sarah Finlayson -- 14. Why ? Personhood and agency in the earliest Greek inscriptions (800-550 BCE) James Whitley -- 15. Names and authorship in the beginnings of Greek alphabetic writing Natalia Elvira Astoreca -- 16. Marking identity through graphemes? A new look at the Sikel arrow-shaped alpha Olga Tribulato and Valentina Mignosa -- Bibliography.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910520308703321 |
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Script and society : the social context of writing practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit / / Philip J. Boyes
