Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies

ISBN-13: 9780367150471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 202 str.

Geoffrey Yeo

Opis

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.

Spis treści

Introduction;  1.How Records Began: Representation and Persistence;  2. Marks of Ownership and Sealing;  3: Records, Accounting, and the Emergence of Writing in Ancient Mesopotamia;  4. Records and Writing in Other Early Societies: Egypt, the Aegean, China, and the Americas;  5. Creating and Storing Written Records and Archives: The Proliferation of Records in South-west Asia, Egypt, and Greece;  6. Orality and Literacy: Confidence in Records;  7. Orality, Record-making, and Social Action;  8. Concluding Thoughts: Archival Science and Early Records

O autorze

Geoffrey Yeo is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Information Studies at University College London in the UK.