MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01496nam a22002538a 4500
001 2008046991
003 DLC
005 20081105093528.0
008 081031s2009 mau b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008046991
020 $a9781405162562 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aP211$b.P69 2009
082 00 $a411.09$222
100 1 $aPowell, Barry B.
245 10 $aWriting :$btheory and history of the technology of civilization /$cby Barry B. Powell.
260 $aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2009.
263 $a0904
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA difficult topic, little studied, poorly understood -- What is writing? -- Writing with signs -- The categories of writing -- Some general principles -- Protocuneiform and counting tokens -- The origins of lexigraphic writing in Mesopotamia -- Plato's ideas and Champollion's decipherment of the Egyptian hieroglyphs -- Egyptian writing and Egyptian language -- The origin and nature of Egyptian writing -- "The house of life": scribes and writing in ancient Egypt -- Syllabic scripts of the Aegean -- The West Semitic revolution -- What kind of writing was West Semitic? -- The origins of West Semitic writing -- Chinese logography -- Lexigraphic writing in Mesoamerica -- The Greek alphabet: a writing that changed the world -- Summary and conclusions.
650 0 $aWriting$xHistory.
650 1 $aAlphabet$xHistory.
650 0 $aWriting$xSocial aspects.