Geoffrey Yeo

Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367706272
• ISBN-10: 036770627X
• Artikelnr.: 69894721

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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