Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems

GORDIN. Shai (ed)

ISBN 10: 393501211X / ISBN 13: 9783935012119

Published by PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck, 2014

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259 p. [Berliner Beiträge zum Vorderen Orient : 23]. Buch hat leichten Wasserschaden.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visualizing Knowledge and Creating Meaning in Ancient Writing Systems
• Publisher: PeWe-Verlag, Gladbeck
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 393501211X
• ISBN 13: 9783935012119
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Archaeologie / Archaeology

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Synopsis

Ancient writing systems employ logographic and logophonetic principles playing on the relationship between writing, script and scribal learning. The workshop proceedings published in this volume explore the way these relationships encode knowledge and meaning reflected in the social, historical and cultural mentality of the early peoples of East Asia (China and Japan), Anatolia, the Aegean, Egypt and Mesoamerica. The meeting was organized in the FU Berlin on the fall of 2010 by the editor and Dr. Renata Landgrafova (now Charles University, Prague) in the frame of the DFG research training group 1458 "Notational Iconicity" ("Schriftbildlichkeit") headed by Prof. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and Prof. Sybille Kramer. The premise of our meeting was that script and the organization of texts can reveal how knowledge is transformed and transmitted among different social groups across time and space, and eventually standardized as written tradition. Its multidisciplinary approach follows recent trends in the attempt to arouse debate between scholars of disparate systems of writing - be it Cuneiform, Hieroglyphic or Linear in nature - and to discuss their elements independent of origin or cultural context. A broad perspective on ancient writing and its visual elements was established with the contributions delving into the aspects of generating knowledge and meaning (J. Janak, M. Weeden), categorizing knowledge (E. Boot, T. W. Kwan, H. Tomas), diffusion and transformation of knowledge (Sh. Gordin, R. Landgrafova) and rationalizing knowledge (E. Birk).