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The shape of script : how and why writing systems change
- Title
- The shape of script : how and why writing systems change / edited by Stephen D. Houston.
- Publication
- Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Houston, Stephen D.
- Description
- xxiii, 317 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
- Uniform Title
- School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cuneiform: Changes and Developments / Niek Veldhuis -- Scripts, High Culture, and Administration in Middle Kingdom Egypt / John Baines -- Paragrams, Punctuation, and System in Ancient Roman Script / John Bodel -- Stability and Change in Arabic Script / Beatrice Gruendler -- Some Principles and Patterns of Script Change / Richard Salomon -- Script Change in Bronze Age China / Kyle Steinke -- The Development of Writing in Japan / David B. Lurie -- Maya Writing: Modified, Transformed / Stephen D. Houston -- The Shape of Script in a Colonial Context: Alphabetic and Pictorial Registers in Mixtec Texts / John Monaghan -- Trends and Transitions in the History of Written Numerals / Stephen Chrisomalis.
- ISBN
- 9781934691427 (alk. paper)
- 1934691429 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010052607
- 99950298666
- OCLC
- ocn698450348
- 698450348
- SCSB-5655565
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries