Writing Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization 1st Edition by Barry Powell ISBN 1118255321 978-1118255322

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ISBN 10: 1118255321

ISBN 13:  978-1118255322

Author:  Barry B. Powell

Writing: Theory and History of the Technology of Civilization offers a coherent system of terms and categories for the study of the complex phenomena in the world’s writing systems.
Tracing the origins of writing tied to speech from ancient Sumer through the Greek alphabet and beyond, the book examines the earliest evidence for writing in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, the relations of these systems to Egyptian and Chinese writing, the origins of purely phonographic systems, and the mystery of alphabetic writing.

With examples from contemporary and historical writing systems, and many illustrations, Writing shows how the structures of writing served and do serve certain social needs and in turn create deep patterns of social behavior.

Table of contents: 

1. What Is Writing?

2. Writing with Signs

3. Categories and Features of Writing

4. Some General Issues in the Study of Writing

5. Protocuneiform and Counting Tokens

6. Origin of Lexigraphic Writing in Mesopotamia

7. Plato’s Ideas and Champollion’s Decipherment of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs

8. Egyptian Writing and Egyptian Speech

9. The Origin and Nature of Egyptian Writing

10. “The House of Life”: Scribes and Writing in Ancient Egypt

11. Syllabic Scripts of the Aegean

12. The West Semitic Revolution

13. What Kind of Writing Was West Semitic?

14. The Origins of West Semitic Writing

15. Chinese Logography

16. Lexigraphic Writing in Mesoamerica

17. The Greek Alphabet: A Writing That Changed the World

18. Summary and Conclusions

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