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Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography
Writing is not just a set of systems for transcribing language and
communicating meaning, but an important element of human practice,
deeply embedded in the cultures where it is present and
fundamentally interconnected with all other aspects of human life.
The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices
explores these relationships in a number of different cultural
contexts and from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including
archaeological, anthropological and linguistic. It offers new ways
of approaching the study of writing and integrating it into wider
debates and discussions about culture, history and archaeology.
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