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Recent approaches to early writing

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2018
Author
Smith, Christopher John
Keywords
Archaic Italy
Literacy
Power
State formation
CC Archaeology
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Abstract
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.
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Smith , C J 2018 , Recent approaches to early writing . in E Herring & E O’Donoghue (eds) , The Archaeology of Death : Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of Italian Archaeology held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, April 16-18, 2016 . Papers in Italian Archaeology , vol. 7 , Archaeopress , pp. 30-36 .
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The Archaeology of Death
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© 2018 the Author. This work has been made available online with permission. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at http://www.archaeopress.com/archaeopressshop/public/displayProductDetail.asp?id={A69F40F5-3447-43C1-A39E-3146F21569EE}
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/15876

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