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Margins of writing, origins of cultures

SANDERS Seth L. (editor)

Series: OIS 2

Item #M13553

Oriental Institute Seminars 2. Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Chicago, 2006. First edition. In-8, xi & 300 pages. Original softcover, new, still under shrink wrap. From the library of Egyptologist Charles Cornell Van Siclen III (VSX). Contents: Margins of writing, origins of cultures / Seth L. Sanders -- Writing and the state : China, India, and general definitions / John Kelly -- Writing in another tongue : alloglottography in the ancient Near East ; Postscript (December 2007) / Gonzalo Rubio -- Abundance in the margins : multiplicity of script in the Demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman -- Response for the first session : origins, functions, adaptation, survival / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Bilingualism, scribal learning, and the death of Sumerian / Christopher Woods -- Multilingual inscriptions and their audiences : Cilicia and Lycia / Annick Payne -- Aramaic, the death of written Hebrew, and language shift in the Persian period / William M. Schniedewind -- Response for the second session : writing at the chronotopic margins of empires / Michael Silverstein -- The lives of the Sumerian language / Piotr Michalowski -- Official and vernacular languages : the shifting sands of imperial and cultural identities in first-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu -- Institutions, vernaculars, publics : the case of second-millennium Anatolia / Theo van den Hout -- Postscript (November 2007) / Theo van den Hout -- Writing, writers, and reading in the kingdom of Van / Paul Zimansky -- Response for third session : power and culture beyond ideology and identity / Sheldon Pollock -- Final response : on the study of the ancients, language, writing, and the state / Peter Machinist. Language: English. This book ships from the USA, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (TXR). Relevant subjects: Mesopotamia.

Language: English.

Price: € 40.00  other currencies

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