The social and cultural contexts of historic writing practices.
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 H...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxbow Books
2021.
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| Series: | Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 374 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781789254792 1789254795 9781789254815 1789254817 |