Recent approaches to early writing

Christopher John Smith

Recent approaches to early writing

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This paper considers the argument of literacy and the state in the light of the relative absence of civic inscriptions from the archaic Italian world. It argues that whilst this absence is so pronounced as to be difficult to attribute entirely to archaeological invisibility, the very act of writing and dedicating can be reconfigured in such a way as to refer to a claim to participate in civic society, and a claim which is not simply reducible to a display of power, but operates also as a technology of the self.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Archaeology of Death
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16-18, 2016
Editors	Edward Herring, Eòin O’Donoghue
Publisher	Archaeopress
Pages	30-36
ISBN (Electronic)	9781784919221
ISBN (Print)	9781784919214
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Papers in Italian Archaeology
Volume	7

Keywords

Archaic Italy
Literacy
Power
State formation

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Recent approaches to early writing. / Smith, Christopher John.
The Archaeology of Death : Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16-18, 2016. ed. / Edward Herring; Eòin O’Donoghue. Archaeopress, 2018. p. 30-36 (Papers in Italian Archaeology; Vol. 7).

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