Record-making and record-keeping in early societies
"Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologie...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York, New York :
Routledge
2021.
[2021] |
| Edición: | 1 ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009866289206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. How records began: representation and persistence
- 2. Marks of ownership and sealing
- 3. Records, accounting, and the emergence of writing in ancient Mesopotamia
- 4. Records and writing in other early societies: Egypt, the Aegean, China, and the Americas
- 5. Creating and storing written records and archives: the proliferation of records in south-west Asia, Egypt, and Greece
- 6. Orality and literacy: confidence in records
- 7. Orality, record-making, and social action
- 8. Concluding thoughts: archival science and early records
- Chronological chart
- Index.
