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The Invention of Writing Prophetic and Shamanic Rituals of North American Indians (17001900)

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By (author): Catherine Howard Pierre Déléage

Writing has been invented four times in human history, by the Sumerians, the Egyptians, the Chinese, and the Mayans. Each of these peoples developed a restricted set of symbols capable of recording any possible discourse in their spoken language. Much later, between 1700 and 1900, prophets and shamans of the Native American tribes developed bounded writing methods, designed to ensure the transmission of ceremonial rituals whose notational principles differed profoundly from more familiar forms of writing. Pierre Déléage draws on a deep and comparative study of historical and ethnographic evidence to propose the groundbreaking thesis that all writing systems were initially bounded methods, reversing the accepted historical perspective and making it possible to revise our conception of the origin of the other great writing systems. The Invention of Writing offers new conceptual tools for answering a simple question: Why have humans repeatedly expended the immense intellectual effort required to invent writing? See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 666g
  • Dimensions: 6 x 9mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Apr 2023
  • Publisher: HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781912808298

About Catherine HowardPierre Déléage

Pierre Déléage is a researcher at the Laboratoire dAnthropologie Sociale at the the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Catherine Howard is an anthropologist and translator.

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