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020 _a9781607322092
020 _a1607322099
020 _z9781607321996 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 _z1607321998
040 _aMdBmJHUP
_cMdBmJHUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aP211.7
_b.A44 2012
082 0 0 _a411/.7
_223
245 0 0 _aAgency in ancient writing
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by Joshua Englehardt.
260 _aBoulder :
_bUniversity Press of Colorado,
_cc2012.
_e(Baltimore, Md. :
_fProject MUSE,
_g2015)
300 _a1 online resource (360 p.)
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : individual intentionality, social structure, and material agency in early writing and emerging script technologies / Joshua Englehardt and Dimitri Nakassis -- The mediated image : reflections on semasiographic notation in the ancient Americas / Margaret A. Jackson -- Bureaucratic backlashes : bureaucrats as agents of socioeconomic change in proto-historic Mesopotamia / Clemens Reichel -- Are writing systems intelligently designed? / Adam D. Smith -- Agency in death : early Egyptian writing from mortuary contexts / Laurel Bestock -- Reembodying identity : seals and seal impressions as agents of social change on late prepalatial Crete / Emily S.K. Anderson -- Performance, presence, and genre in Maya hieroglyphs : a case study in the agency of writing / Michael D. Carrasco -- Contingency and innovation in native transcriptions of encrypted cuneiform (ud.gal.nun) / J. Cale Johnson and Adam Johnson -- Structuration of the conjuncture : agency in classic Maya iconography and texts / Joshua Englehardt -- Inscriptions from Zhongshan : Chinese texts and the archaeology of agency / Wang Haicheng -- Structuration and the state in Mycenaean Greece / Dimitri Nakassis -- Epilogue : agency and writing / Ruth D. Whitehouse.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aSocial archaeology
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aPaleography
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aAgent (Philosophy)
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aWriting
_xSocial aspects
_vCase studies.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aEnglehardt, Joshua.
710 2 _aProject Muse.
830 0 _aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781607322092/
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c35213
_d35213