Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Acknowledgments xvii
7. Introduction Individual Intentionality, Social Structure, and Material Agency in Early Writing and Emerging Script Technologies 1
8. Part I Agency in the Formation of Early Writing and Notational Systems
9. One The Mediated Image 21
10. Two Bureaucratic Backlashes 45
11. Three Are Writing Systems Intelligently Designed? 71
12. Four Agency in Death 95
13. Part II The Material Agency of Early Writing and Incipient Scripts
14. Five Reembodying Identity 115
15. Six Performance, Presence, and Genre in Maya Hieroglyphs 139
16. Seven Contingency and Innovation in Native Transcriptions of Encrypted Cuneiform (UD.GAL.NUN) 165
17. Part III Agency through Writing and Early Texts
18. Eight Structuration of the Conjuncture 185
19. Nine Inscriptions from Zhongshan 209
20. Ten Structuration and the State in Mycenaean Greece 231
21. Epilogue: Agency and Writing 249
22. References 257
23. List of Contributors 289
24. Index 293