Inventing Writing
Prophets, Shamans, and the Transmission of Ritual Discourse in North American Indigenous Cultures, 1600–1900
$37.43
- Paperback
150 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2026
Summary
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 fo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781912808298 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1912808293 |
| Author: | Pierre Deleage, Victoria Bergstrom, Matthew H. Evans |
| Publisher: | HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory |
| Imprint: | HAU Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 150 |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 666g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 6mm x 15mm |
About The Author
Pierre Deleage
Pierre Deleage is a researcher at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.
Catherine Howard is an anthropologist and translator.
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