
Script and Society
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Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
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- Cover
- Book title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Background, theory and methods
- 1. Introduction: Ugarit and its scripts
- 2. The social archaeology of writing
- Part II. Late Bronze Age writing practices in regional context
- 3.Writing in the Bronze Age Levant
- 4.Standardisation, vernacularisation and the emergence of alphabetic cuneiform
- 5.Influence and innovation: networks of writing practice and culture
- Part III. Writing and society at Ugarit
- 6.The contexts of writing at Ugarit
- 7.Writing and the social construction of place
- 8.Who wrote? Literacy in Ugarit
- 9.Writing practices and minority communities
- 10.Social change in Late Bronze Age Ugarit
- 11.Writing practices and elite identity: imperialism, resistance and vernacularisation
- 12.The impact and legacy of alphabetic cuneiform
- 13.Conclusion: the social context of writing practices at Ugarit
- Bibliography
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