The ‘He’ Tribe from Serabit el Khadim and the Invention of Alphabetic Writing: Can the Subaltern … Write?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Towards a Holistic Study of Written Artefacts in Ancient History 1
4. Methodological Considerations
5. Some Mesopotamian Challenges: A History Based on Tablets Unevenly Distributed in Time and Space 31
6. Epigraphy, Archaeology, and our Understanding of the Mycenaean World 49
7. Early Uses of Writing
8. Material, Spatial, and Social Contexts of Early Writing: Egypt and China 71
9. Aśoka and the Use of Writing in Ancient India 129
10. Material Features
11. Writing on Wood in Hittite Anatolia 165
12. The Mittanian Cuneiform Documents: The Interplay between Content, Language, Material, Format, and Sealing Practices 207
13. Some Turin Papyri Revisited: A Look at Material Features and Scribal Practices 221
14. Co-presence of Written Artefacts
15. Experiencing Inscriptions in Space: Extended Inscriptions of the Early New Kingdom (Qenamun – Useramun – Rekhmire) 243
16. The Scholar in His House: Scribal Material in Context in Late Uruk Private Houses 281
17. Cultural Encounters
18. Bakhtin, Gramsci, and the Materiality of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs: When the ‘Official’ Culture Leaks into the ‘Folk’ Domain 307
19. The ‘He’ Tribe from Serabit el Khadim and the Invention of Alphabetic Writing: Can the Subaltern … Write? 345
20. Contributors 369
21. General Index 371