The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices: 2 (Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 6: Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS)
 
9781789254785: The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices: 2 (Contexts of and Relations Between Early Writing Systems)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789254787 ISBN 13: 9781789254785
Publisher: Oxbow Books, 2021

Synopsis

Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice, deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life. The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices explores these relationships in a number of different cultural contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.

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About the Author

Philip Boyes is a research associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. As part of the CREWS Project, he works on the social context of writing at Late Bronze Age Ugarit. He has previously worked on the archaeology of the East Mediterranean and Levant in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages.

Philippa M. Steele is the Director of the CREWS Project, a Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and a Senior Research Fellow of Magdalene College. She has previously been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Evans Pritchard Lectureship at All Souls College, Oxford, followed by a European Research Council grant to run the CREWS Project, and has published widely on ancient languages and writing systems with a particular focus on Cyprus and the Aegean.

Natalia Elvira Astoreca developed her PhD thesis as a member of the CREWS Project. Before coming to the University of Cambridge, she studied at Leiden University and the Autonomous University of Madrid. Her research is focused on the interactions between language and script, especially in the case of early alphabetic writing in the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

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Publisher
Oxbow Books
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1789254787
ISBN 13 
9781789254785
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
384
Editor
Boyes Philip J., Steele Philippa M., Elvira Astoreca Natalia