Description
Whether based on ornament, body painting, mask or pictogram, the memory of peoples "without writing" has always seemed labile, disorderly, doomed to failure. The "mnemonic supports" of which historians of writing speak about these traditions are regularly described as abortive attempts to reproduce the external form of an object, or simple graphic means of expressing elementary concepts.
This book presents the results ...
Characteristics
Author : Carlo Séveri
- Number of pages
- 372 pages
- Dimensions
- 19 x 20 cm
- Categories
- Bookshop & Media, General Books