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  title info:
    title: Writing as material practice
    sub title: substance, surface and medium
  name:
    name part: Whitehouse, Ruth
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Piquette, Kathryn
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
  abstract: Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing -- the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging in spatial context from the Americas to the Near East, the chapters in this volume bring a variety of perspectives which contribute to both specific and broader questions of writing materialities. The authors also aim to place past graphical systems in their social contexts so they can be understood in relation to the people who created and attributed meaning to writing and associated symbolic modes through a diverse array of individual and wider social practices. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai).
  table of contents: Developing an approach to writing as material practice / Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse -- The twisting paths of recall : khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact / Frank Salomon -- Writing as material technology : orientation within landscapes of the Classic Maya world / Sarah E. Jackson -- Writing (and reading) as material practice : the world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation / Roger Matthews -- Re-writing the script : decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c. 2000-1150 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks -- The function and meaning of writing in the prehistoric Aegean : some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing from a material perspective / Helène Whittaker -- Form follows function : writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age / Sarah Finlayson -- Materiality of Minoan writing : modes of display and perception / Georgia Flouda -- Saving on clay : the Linear B practice of cutting tablets / Helena Tomas -- Straight, crooked and joined-up writing : an early Mediterranean view / Alan Johnston -- "It is written"? : making, remaking and unmaking early 'writing' in the lower Nile Valley / Kathryn E. Piquette -- Written Greek but drawn Egyptian : script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus / Stephen Kidd -- The other writing : iconic literacy and Situla art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) / Elisa Perego -- 'Tombstones' in the north Italian Iron Age : careless writers or athletic readers? / Ruth D. Whitehouse -- Different times, different materials and different purposes : writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge / Craig Cessford -- Writing conservation : the impact of text on conservation decisions and practice / Elizabeth Pye -- Epilogue / John Bennet.
  note: edited by Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse.
  note: Resource simultaneously available in PDF, EPUB format, and Kindle format.
  note: "This volume grew out of a conference of the same title, held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London in May 2009"--Page [iii].
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: Writing
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Writing
  subject:
    topic: Anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: Humanities
  subject:
    topic: Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
  subject:
    topic: Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sociology and anthropology
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / World
  classification: P211 .W7165 2013
  classification: [E]
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Writing as material practice
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Ubiquity Press, 2013
    identifier: (OCoLC)874928167
  identifier: 9781909188266
  identifier: 1909188263
  identifier: 9781909188259
  identifier: 1909188255
  identifier: 9781909188242
  identifier: 1909188247
  identifier: 22573/ctv3sqb43 JSTOR
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  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 140327
    record change date: 20260728172417.4
    record identifier: in00004023249
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng