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Writing as Material Practice
Writing as Material Practice grapples with the issue of writing as a form of material culture in its ancient and more recent manifestations, and in the contexts of production and consumption. Fifteen case studies explore the artefactual nature of writing — the ways in which materials, techniques, colour, scale, orientation and visibility inform the creation of inscribed objects and spaces, as well as structure subsequent engagement, perception and meaning making. Covering a temporal span of some 5000 years, from c.3200 BCE to the present day, and ranging in spatial context from the Americas to the Near East, the chapters in this volume bring a variety of perspectives which contribute to both specific and broader questions of writing materialities.The authors also aim to place past graphical systems in their social contexts so they can be understood in relation to the people who created and attributed meaning to writing and associated symbolic modes through a diverse array of individual and wider social practices.(DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bai)
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Keywords
- anthropology
- Archaeology
- artefact
- Clay tablet
- Graphical culture
- Humanities
- Material culture
- Materiality
- Practice theory
- Quipu
- Situla
- Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology & anthropology
- Symbolism
- text
- Writing
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