Boyes Philip J (53 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes - from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas.  This volume brings together contributions by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus is on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes - from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas.  This volume brings together contributions by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus is on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power bases to a symbol of local identity and a means of conveying complex information and ideas. This volume brings together contributions by members of the Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) research team and visiting fellows, offering a range of different perspectives and approaches to problems of writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Their focus is on practices, viewing writing as something that people do within a wider social and cultural context, and on adaptations, considering the ways in which writing changed and was changed by the people using it. Perspectives on and approaches to problems of early writing in the ancient Mediterranean. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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. New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. 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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Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. 231 p. From the estate of the diplomat and orientalist Prof. Dr Werner Daum (1943-2025). Includes a supplement entitled 'A Double Abecedary? Halaham and Abgad on the TT99 Ostracon'. A good, clean copy, slightly worn. Aus dem Nachlass des Diplomaten und Orientalisten Prof. Dr. Werner Daum (1943-2025). Mit einer Beilage "A Double Abecedary? Halaham and Abgad on the TT99 Ostracon." Gutes und sauberes Exemplar, etwas abgegriffen. - - Acknowledgements - - Abbreviations - - 1. Introduction: Issues in studying early alphabets Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele - - 2. A 'top-down' re-invention of an old form: Cuneiform alphabets in context. Silvia Ferrara - - 3. Variation in alphabetic cuneiform: Rethinking the 'Phoenician' inscription from Sarepta. - - Philip J. Boyes - - 4. Ancient Egypt and the earliest known stages of alphabetic writing. Ben Haring - - 5. Much ado about an implement! - the Phoenicianising of Early Alphabetic . Reinhard G. Lehmann - - 6. Vowel representation in the Archaic Greek and Old Aramaic scripts: A comparative orthographic and phonological examination - - Roger D. Woodard - - 7. Mother or sister? Rethinking the origins of the Greek alphabet and its relation to the other 'western' alphabets. - - Willemijn Waal - - 8. The development of Greek alphabets: Fluctuations and standardisations. Philippa M. Steele - - 9. Between scripts and languages: Inscribed intricacies from geometric and archaic Greek contexts - - Giorgos Bourogiannis - 10. The matter of voice - the Umbrian perspective. - - Karin W. Tikkanen - - 11. Writings in network? The case of Palaeohispanic scripts. - - Coline Ruiz Darasse - - Bibliography. ISBN 9781789250923 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 742.…

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