Agency in ancient writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Englehardt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 411/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EnglehardtJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Agent (Philosophy) Paleography Social archaeology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-60732-209-9
1-4571-7404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462033603321 |
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agency in ancient writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Englehardt |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 411/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EnglehardtJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Agent (Philosophy) Paleography Social archaeology |
ISBN |
1-60732-209-9
1-4571-7404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786329803321 |
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Agency in ancient writing / / edited by Joshua Englehardt |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina | 411/.7 |
Altri autori (Persone) | EnglehardtJoshua |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Agent (Philosophy) Paleography Social archaeology |
ISBN |
1-60732-209-9
1-4571-7404-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816788003321 |
Boulder, : University Press of Colorado, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The logic of writing and the organization of society / / Jack Goody [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Goody Jack |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1986 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 303.4 |
Collana | Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Writing - Social aspects Social evolution Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN |
1-139-08539-5
0-511-62159-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | The Logic of Writing & the Organization of Society |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248246303316 |
Goody Jack | ||
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1986 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Sign here! [[electronic resource] ] : handwriting in the age of new media / / edited by Sonja Neef, José Van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands, : Amsterdam University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina | 439.31 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
NeefSonja
DijckJosé van KetelaarF. C. J |
Collana | Transformations in art and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Written communication - Technological innovations Copying processes - Social aspects Mass media and technology Mass media and culture |
ISBN |
1-280-95821-9
9786610958214 90-485-0547-X 1-4294-5453-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction: Introduction; Section One: Authentic Copies; Section Two: Re-Mediating Handwriting; Section Three: Handwriting and (Dis-)Embodiment; Contributors; Illustration Acknowledgement; Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996207991703316 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands, : Amsterdam University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Sign here! : handwriting in the age of new media / / edited by Sonja Neef, Jose Van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam, Netherlands, : Amsterdam University Press, 2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina | 439.31 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
NeefSonja
DijckJose van KetelaarF. C. J |
Collana | Transformations in art and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Written communication - Technological innovations Copying processes - Social aspects Mass media and technology Mass media and culture |
ISBN |
1-280-95821-9
9786610958214 90-485-0547-X 1-4294-5453-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Table of Contents; Sign Here! Handwriting in the Age of Technical Reproduction: Introduction; Section One: Authentic Copies; Section Two: Re-Mediating Handwriting; Section Three: Handwriting and (Dis-)Embodiment; Contributors; Illustration Acknowledgement; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910146260003321 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands, : Amsterdam University Press, 2006 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices |
Autore | Boyes Philip J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (385 pages) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
SteelePhilippa M
Elvira AstorecaNatalia |
Collana | Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - Social aspects
Writing Social sciences |
ISBN | 1-78925-479-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910520308703321 |
Boyes Philip J | ||
Havertown : , : Oxbow Books, Limited, , 2021 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Violence of the Letter : Toward a Theory of Writing |
Autore | McMahon Melanie |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (213 pages) |
Disciplina | 302.2244 |
Soggetto topico | Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN | 0-472-90323-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Prelude -- Introduction -- 1. A Brief Technical Detour -- 2. The Trauma of Literacy -- 3. The Alphabet and Reproduction -- 4. Plato and the Forms of Alphabetic Writing -- 5. The Alphabet and Money -- Interlude -- 6. Letters of Blood and Fire -- 7. The Subject Is Always Alphabetized -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910741396803321 |
McMahon Melanie | ||
Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , 2023 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
Autore | Powell Barry B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996441550803316 |
Powell Barry B | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell |
Autore | Powell Barry B |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
Disciplina | 411.09 |
Soggetto topico |
Writing - History
Alphabet - History Writing - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-283-45402-5
9786613454027 1-118-29348-7 1-118-29351-7 1-118-29350-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139692303321 |
Powell Barry B | ||
Chichester, U.K. ; ; Malden, Mass., : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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