Margins of writing, origins of cultures /
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Language: English
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Chicago :
Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
2006.
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Oriental Institute Seminars ;
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Call Number: DS41 .C55 v.2
Table of Contents:
- Margins of writing, origins of cultures / Seth L. Sanders Writing and the state : China, India, and general definitions / John Kelly Writing in another tongue : alloglottography in the ancient Near East ; Postscript (December 2007) / Gonzalo Rubio Abundance in the margins : multiplicity of script in the Demotic magical papyri / Jacco Dieleman Response for the first session : origins, functions, adaptation, survival / Jerrold S. Cooper Bilingualism, scribal learning, and the death of Sumerian / Christopher Woods Multilingual inscriptions and their audiences : Cilicia and Lycia / Annick Payne Aramaic, the death of written Hebrew, and language shift in the Persian period / William M. Schniedewind Response for the second session : writing at the chronotopic margins of empires / Michael Silverstein The lives of the Sumerian language / Piotr Michalowski Official and vernacular languages : the shifting sands of imperial and cultural identities in first-millennium B.C. Mesopotamia / Paul-Alain Beaulieu Institutions, vernaculars, publics : the case of second-millennium Anatolia / Theo van den Hout Postscript (November 2007) / Theo van den Hout Writing, writers, and reading in the kingdom of Van / Paul Zimansky Response for third session : power and culture beyond ideology and identity / Sheldon Pollock Final response : on the study of the ancients, language, writing, and the state / Peter Machinist.