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Agency in Ancient Writing /
"Through the lens of agency, contributors successfully rethink the nature of ancient texts. In so doing they ably demonstrate that when a new theoretical orientation is applied to a taken-for-granted category of data it invigorates both the data and our understanding of the past."--Marcia-...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder :
University Press of Colorado,
2012.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.