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Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / Barry B. Powell.
- Title
- Writing : theory and history of the technology of civilization / Barry B. Powell.
- Author
- Powell, Barry B.
- Publication
- Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | P211 .P69 2009 | Off-site |
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- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction : a difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- Categories and features of writing -- Some general issues in the study of writing -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- Origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's Ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian speech -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life" : scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet : a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions.
- ISBN
- 9781405162562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1405162562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008046991
- OCLC
- 269455610
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library