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100 1 $aPiquette, Kathryn E.$4aut
245 10 $aWriting as Material Practice: Substance, surface and medium
260 $a$bUbiquity Press$c2013
300 $a1 electronic resource (342 p.)
520 $aWriting 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)
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $2bicssc$aHumanities
650 7 $2bicssc$aArchaeology
650 7 $2bicssc$aSociety and social sciences Society and social sciences
650 7 $2bicssc$aSociology and anthropology
650 7 $2bicssc$aAnthropology
650 7 $2bicssc$aSocial and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography
653 $amaterial culture
653 $awriting
653 $asymbolism
653 $aarchaeology
653 $aartefact
700 1 $aWhitehouse, Ruth D.$4aut
856 40 $uhttp://oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=533915$zhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/