Writing as material practice substance, surface and medium
Writing 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, c...
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London
Ubiquity Press
2013, 2013
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Table of Contents:
- Developing an approach to writing as material practice / Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse
- The twisting paths of recall : khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact / Frank Salomon
- Writing as material technology : orientation within landscapes of the Classic Maya world / Sarah E. Jackson
- Writing (and reading) as material practice : the world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation / Roger Matthews
- Re-writing the script : decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c. 2000-1150 BC) / Rachael Thyrza Sparks
- The function and meaning of writing in the prehistoric Aegean : some reflections on the social and symbolic significance of writing from a material perspective / Helène Whittaker
- Form follows function : writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age / Sarah Finlayson
- Materiality of Minoan writing : modes of display and perception / Georgia Flouda
- Saving on clay : the Linear B practice of cutting tablets / Helena Tomas
- Straight, crooked and joined-up writing : an early Mediterranean view / Alan Johnston
- "It is written"? : making, remaking and unmaking early 'writing' in the lower Nile Valley / Kathryn E. Piquette
- Written Greek but drawn Egyptian : script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus / Stephen Kidd
- The other writing : iconic literacy and Situla art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) / Elisa Perego
- 'Tombstones' in the north Italian Iron Age : careless writers or athletic readers? / Ruth D. Whitehouse
- Different times, different materials and different purposes : writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge / Craig Cessford
- Writing conservation : the impact of text on conservation decisions and practice / Elizabeth Pye
- Epilogue / John Bennet
- Includes bibliographical references