Writing as material practice : : substance, surface and medium / / edited by Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse

• TeilnehmendeR: Whitehouse, Ruth,; Piquette, Kathryn,
• Place / Publishing House: London : : Ubiquity Press Limited ,, 2013; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) :; illustrations (some colour), maps; digital file(s).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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, co...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Developing an approach to writing as material practice (Kathryn E. Piquette and Ruth D. Whitehouse)
• Chapter 2. The Twisting Paths of Recall: Khipu (Andean cord notation) as artifact (Frank Salomon)
• Chapter 3. Writing as Material Technology: Orientation within landscapes of the Classic Maya world (Sarah E. Jackson)
• Chapter 4. Writing (and Reading) as Material Practice: The world of cuneiform culture as an arena for investigation (Roger Matthews)
• Chapter 5. Re-writing the Script: Decoding the textual experience in the Bronze Age Levant (c.2000–1150 bc) (Rachael Thyrza Sparks)
• Chapter 6. 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)
• Chapter 7. Form Follows Function: Writing and its supports in the Aegean Bronze Age (Sarah Finlayson)
• Chapter 8. Materiality of Minoan Writing: Modes of display and perception (Georgia Flouda)
• Chapter 9. Saving on Clay: The Linear B practice of cutting tablets (Helena Tomas)
• Chapter 10. Straight, Crooked and Joined-up Writing: An early Mediterranean view (Alan Johnston)
• Chapter 11. “It Is Written”?: Making, remaking and unmaking early ‘writing' in the lower Nile Valley (Kathryn E. Piquette)
• Chapter 12. Written Greek but Drawn Egyptian: Script changes in a bilingual dream papyrus (Stephen Kidd)
• Chapter 13. The Other Writing: Iconic literacy and Situla Art in pre-Roman Veneto (Italy) (Elisa Perego)
• Chapter 14. ‘Tombstones' in the North Italian Iron Age: Careless writers or athletic readers? (Ruth D. Whitehouse)
• Chapter 15. Different Times, Different Materials and Different Purposes: Writing on objects at the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge (Craig Cessford)
• Chapter 16. Writing Conservation: The impact of text on conservation decisions and practice (Elizabeth Pye)
• Chapter 17. Epilogue (John Bennet)