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Script and society : the social context of writing practices in late bronze age ugarit /
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts - alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egypt...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OXBOW BOOKS,
2021.
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| Colección: | Contexts of and relations between early writing systems (Series) ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Book title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Background, theory and methods
- 1. Introduction: Ugarit and its scripts
- 2. The social archaeology of writing
- Part II. Late Bronze Age writing practices in regional context
- 3.Writing in the Bronze Age Levant
- 4.Standardisation, vernacularisation and the emergence of alphabetic cuneiform
- 5.Influence and innovation: networks of writing practice and culture
- Part III. Writing and society at Ugarit
- 6.The contexts of writing at Ugarit
- 7.Writing and the social construction of place
- 8.Who wrote? Literacy in Ugarit
- 9.Writing practices and minority communities
- 10.Social change in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
- 11.Writing practices and elite identity: imperialism, resistance and vernacularisation
- 12.The impact and legacy of alphabetic cuneiform
- 13.Conclusion: the social context of writing practices at Ugarit
- Bibliography.