[PDF] Agency In Ancient Writing eBook

Author : Joshua Englehardt
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1607322099

GET BOOK

Individual agents are frequently evident in early writing and notational systems, yet these systems have rarely been subjected to the concept of agency as it is traceable in archeology. Agency in Ancient Writing addresses this oversight, allowing archeologists to identify and discuss real, observable actors and actions in the archaeological record. Embracing myriad ways in which agency can be interpreted, ancient writing systems from Mesoamerica, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, China, and Greece are examined from a textual perspective as both archaeological objects and nascent historical documents. This allows for distinction among intentions, consequences, meanings, and motivations, increasing understanding and aiding interpretation of the subjectivity of social actors. Chapters focusing on acts of writing and public recitation overlap with those addressing the materiality of texts, interweaving archaeology, epigraphy, and the study of visual symbol systems. Agency in Ancient Writing leads to a more thorough and meaningful discussion of agency as an archaeological concept and will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient texts, including archaeologists, historians, linguists, epigraphers, and art historians, as well as scholars studying agency and structuration theory.

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 23,45 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9004375279

GET BOOK

The volume The Materiality of Texts from Ancient Egypt contains nine contributions from well-known papyrologists, Egyptologists, archaeologists and technical specialists. They discuss the materiality of ancient writing and writing supports in various ways through methodological considerations and through practical case studies from the early Pharaonic to the Late Antique periods in Egypt, including Greek and Egyptian papyri and ostraca, inscriptions and graffiti. The articles in this volume present new approaches to the study of textual material and scribal practice, especially in the light of the ongoing development of digital techniques that uncover new information from ancient writing materials. The aim of the book is to encourage researchers of ancient texts to consider the benefits of using these new methods and technological resources.

Author : Hella Eckardt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1108418058

GET BOOK

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

Author : Charles Halton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 110705205X

GET BOOK

This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.

Author : Linda Bailey
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2002-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781550745368

GET BOOK

An exciting blend of fact and fiction and comic-book style illustrations make learning about Ancient Greece fun in this book in the Good Times Travel Agency series.

Author : Haicheng Wang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107028124

GET BOOK

Writing and the Ancient State is a comparative study of the use of writing to create and maintain order in early states.

Author : Stephen D. Houston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781934691427

GET BOOK

This book builds on earlier projects about the origins and extinctions of script traditions throughout the world in an effort to address the fundamental questions of how and why writing systems change. The contributors--who study ancient scripts from Arabic to Roman, from Bronze Age China to Middle Kingdom Egypt--utilize an approach that views writing less as a technology than as a mode of communication, one that is socially learned and culturally transmitted.

Author : Anne Kolb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 3110592029

GET BOOK

This volume explores the significance of literacy for everyday life in the ancient world. It focuses on the use of writing and written materials, the circumstances of their use, and different types of users. The broad geographic and chronologic frame of reference includes many kinds of written materials, from Pharaonic Egypt and ancient China through the early middle ages, yet a focus is placed on the Roman Empire.