Author: Nikolaus Dietrich, Ludger Lieb, Nele Schneidereit
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111326136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Theory and Classification of Material Text Cultures
Author: Nikolaus Dietrich, Ludger Lieb, Nele Schneidereit
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111326136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111326136
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Writing Matters
Author: Ruth Whitehouse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350412538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which the inscriptions occur. The first writing in Italy was not a local invention, but was introduced by the Phoenicians and Greeks in the 9th–8th centuries BCE. It was taken up by number of indigenous communities over the subsequent centuries to write their own languages, before these were eventually submerged by the spread of Latin. In a series of theoretical, methodological and interpretative essays, Ruth Whitehouse explores what can be learned about how writing was used by these communities and what it meant to them. The bodies of data considered relate to Venetic and Raetic (the northeast), Lepontic (the northwest), Messapic (the southeast) and Etruscan (west central Italy, extending also into Campania in the south and the Po plain in the north). While not a comprehensive survey, there are enough different groups to allow a comparative approach to be adopted. Analysis of the datasets is able to reveal the similarities and differences between them, as well as identify features that were widespread in 1st-millennium-BCE Italy and others that were more idiosyncratic and specific to particular cultural groups. Placing materiality at the centre of study allows a reconsideration of the roles writing played in the lives of the individuals and groups who occupied Italy in the 1st millennium BCE.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350412538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The epigraphy of 1st-millennium-BCE Italy has been studied for many years, but these studies have largely concentrated on the languages encoded in the inscriptions and their semantic meanings. This book takes a more holistic approach that looks not only at content, but also the archaeological contexts of the inscriptions and the materiality of their 'supports': the artefacts and monuments on which the inscriptions occur. The first writing in Italy was not a local invention, but was introduced by the Phoenicians and Greeks in the 9th–8th centuries BCE. It was taken up by number of indigenous communities over the subsequent centuries to write their own languages, before these were eventually submerged by the spread of Latin. In a series of theoretical, methodological and interpretative essays, Ruth Whitehouse explores what can be learned about how writing was used by these communities and what it meant to them. The bodies of data considered relate to Venetic and Raetic (the northeast), Lepontic (the northwest), Messapic (the southeast) and Etruscan (west central Italy, extending also into Campania in the south and the Po plain in the north). While not a comprehensive survey, there are enough different groups to allow a comparative approach to be adopted. Analysis of the datasets is able to reveal the similarities and differences between them, as well as identify features that were widespread in 1st-millennium-BCE Italy and others that were more idiosyncratic and specific to particular cultural groups. Placing materiality at the centre of study allows a reconsideration of the roles writing played in the lives of the individuals and groups who occupied Italy in the 1st millennium BCE.
Keeping Record
Author: Abigail S. Armstrong, Matthias J. Kuhn, Jörg Peltzer, Chun Fung Tong
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111324222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111324222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Theory and Classification of Material Text Cultures
Author: Nikolaus Dietrich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783111325491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783111325491
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Outline of Cultural Materials
Author: George Peter Murdock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Fashion Theory
Resources in Education
Introduction to Sociology 2e
Author: Nathan J. Keirns
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938168413
Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
"This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938168413
Category : Sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
"This text is intended for a one-semester introductory course."--Page 1.
The New Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Presents articles on a variety of specific people, places, things, and ideas, arranged alphabetically in a twelve-volume micropaedia comprised of brief entries and a seventeen-volume macropaedia of in-depth articles, and includes illustrations, maps, and photographs, a two-volume index, and a topical guide to entries.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1206
Book Description
Presents articles on a variety of specific people, places, things, and ideas, arranged alphabetically in a twelve-volume micropaedia comprised of brief entries and a seventeen-volume macropaedia of in-depth articles, and includes illustrations, maps, and photographs, a two-volume index, and a topical guide to entries.
Materialising Roman Histories
Author: Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785706799
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
The Roman period witnessed massive changes in the human-material environment, from monumentalised cityscapes to standardised low-value artefacts like pottery. This book explores new perspectives to understand this Roman ‘object boom’ and its impact on Roman history. In particular, the book’s international contributors question the traditional dominance of ‘representation’ in Roman archaeology, whereby objects have come to stand for social phenomena such as status, facets of group identity, or notions like Romanisation and economic growth. Drawing upon the recent material turn in anthropology and related disciplines, the essays in this volume examine what it means to materialise Roman history, focusing on the question of what objects do in history, rather than what they represent. In challenging the dominance of representation, and exploring themes such as the impact of standardisation and the role of material agency, Materialising Roman History is essential reading for anyone studying material culture from the Roman world (and beyond).