Agency in ancient writing
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...
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University Press of Colorado
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-287) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 299 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781607321996 978-1-60732-199-6 9781607322092 978-1-60732-209-2 |