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Agency in ancient writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Englehardt
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.
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Agency in ancient writing [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Joshua Englehardt
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
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Agency in ancient writing / / edited by Joshua Englehardt
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
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The logic of writing and the organization of society / / Jack Goody [[electronic resource]]
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
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Sign here! [[electronic resource] ] : handwriting in the age of new media / / edited by Sonja Neef, José Van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar
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
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Sign here! : handwriting in the age of new media / / edited by Sonja Neef, Jose Van Dijck, Eric Ketelaar
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
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The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
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
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The Violence of the Letter : Toward a Theory of Writing
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
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell
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
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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / / Barry B. Powell
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
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