Theory and Classification of Material Text Cultures
Author : Nikolaus Dietrich
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File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2024-02-14
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ISBN : 9783111325491
Author : Nikolaus Dietrich
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2024-02-14
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ISBN : 9783111325491
Author : Nikolaus Dietrich, Ludger Lieb, Nele Schneidereit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2024-10-07
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ISBN : 3111326136
Author : Ruth Whitehouse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 16,21 MB
Release : 2024-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1350412538
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.
Author : Abigail S. Armstrong, Matthias J. Kuhn, Jörg Peltzer, Chun Fung Tong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 2024-06-04
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ISBN : 3111324222
Author : R. Alexander Bentley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759100336
This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations of the past, while recognizing the wonderful archaeological traditions that created it. An extensive bibliography is included. This volume is the single most important reference for current information on contemporary archaeological theories.
Author : Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781557532909
Articles in this volume focus on theories and histories of comparative literature and the field of comparative cultural studies. Contributors are Kwaku Asante-Darko on African postcolonial literature; Hendrik Birus on Goethe's concept of world literature; Amiya Dev on comparative literature in India; Marian Galik on interliterariness; Ernst Grabovszki on globalization, new media, and world literature; Jan Walsh Hokenson on the culture of the context; Marko Juvan on literariness; Karl S.Y. Kao on metaphor; Kristof Jacek Kozak on comparative literature in Slovenia; Manuela Mourao on comparative literature in the USA; Jola Skulj on cultural identity; Slobodan Sucur on period styles and theory; Peter Swirski on popular and highbrow literature; Antony Tatlow on textual anthropology; William H. Thornton on East/West power politics in cultural studies; Steven Totosy on comparative cultural studies; and Xiaoyi Zhou and Q.S. Tong on comparative literature in China. The papers are followed by an index and a bibliography of scholarship in comparative literature and cultural studies compiled by Steven Totosy, Steven Aoun, and Wendy C. Nielsen.
Author : George Peter Murdock
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Anthropology
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Author : Christopher Y. Tilley
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 2014-10-24
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9781138815162
Originally published in 1991, this book tackles the basic problem of the relationship between text and artefact in an analysis of prehistoric art. Focusing on a collection of rock carvings from northern Sweden, it fuses theory and the practice of interpretation to create a fresh framework for understanding the relationship between past and present.
Author : Victor Buchli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415267212
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Author : Kenneth L. Ames
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Page : 250 pages
File Size : 25,56 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
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