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Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) Book 6) by Philippa M Steele; Philip John Boyes is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) Book 6) about?
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 presents a group of papers 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. They focus 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.
Who reads Writing Around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) Book 6)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Philippa M Steele; Philip John Boyes
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books, Limited
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781789258509
- Category
- nonfiction
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