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,Reading the ‘Cheyenne Letter’: Towards a Typology of Inscription beyond the Alphabet,writing. It proposes to interrogate all ‘inscription’ with a programme of questions: is the substrate natural? Monumental? Portable? Is the society sedentary? Hunter-gatherer? Are signs semasiographic? Phonographic? What is the direction of reading? Who controls the writing culture?

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2634-6117 ies, to the public inscriptions and the democratization of wThis book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From

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2634-6117 various disciplines, they give an up-to-date account of the current state of knowledge in a field at the forefront of ‘Book History’.978-3-319-85328-4978-3-319-54136-5Series ISSN 2634-6117 Series E-ISSN 2634-6125