| Description |
xvii, 213 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: p. 194-205. |
| Contents |
The word of God -- Concept of "a"/"the" religion --Universalism and particularism -- Cognitive contradictions in the general and the specific -- Specialization : priests and intellectuals -- Great and little traditions : spirit cults and world religions -- Writing and religion in Ancient Egypt -- Writing and religion in other early civilizations -- Ritual and writing -- Word of mammon -- Origin of writing and the ancient economy -- Writing and the temple economy -- Writing and the palace economy -- Writing and the mercantile economy -- Writing and individual transactions -- Writing and the economy in Africa -- State, the bureau and the file -- Bureaucracies -- Administration of early states with writing -- Administration of states without writing -- Writing in the colonial and national administrations -- Writing and the political process -- Letter of the law -- Definition of law -- Courts, constables and codes -- Sources of law and changes of rule -- Legal reasoning -- Court organization -- Legal forms -- Expansion of writing and law in medieval England. |
| Subject |
Writing -- History.
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Writing -- Social aspects.
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Social evolution.
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Africa, West -- Civilization.
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| ISBN |
0521339626 (pbk.) |
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0521327458 |
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