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[TTC Video] Marc Zender - Writing And Civilization From Ancient Worlds To Modernity
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[TTC Video] Marc Zender - Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity
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Can you imagine the world—or your life—without writing? From emails to street signs and newspapers to novels, the written word is so ever-present that we rarely stop to consider how it came to be.
Yet at just over 5,000 years old, writing is actually a relatively recent invention. It has become so central to the way we communicate and live, however, that it often seems as if writing has always existed.
Through writing, we gain knowledge about past cultures and languages we couldn’t possibly obtain any other way. Writing creates a continuous historical record—something an oral history could never achieve. And writing systems are integral to many cultural identities and serve as both a tool and a product of many important societal structures, from religion to politics.
The fundamental role and impact of writing in our civilization simply cannot be overstated. But the question remains: Who invented writing, and why?
Like any event from our prehistoric past, the story of writing’s origins is burdened by myths, mysteries, and misinformation. For the past two centuries, however, dedicated scholars have used rigorous methods to uncover a tale of intrigue, fascinating connections, and elegant solutions to the complex problem of turning language into text.
In the 24 visually intensive lectures of Writing and Civilization: From Ancient Worlds to Modernity, you’ll trace the remarkable saga of the invention and evolution of “visible speech,” from its earliest origins to its future in the digital age. Professor Marc Zender—Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University and an accomplished epigrapher—whisks you around the globe on a thrilling journey to explore how an array of sophisticated writing systems developed, then were adopted and adapted by surrounding cultures.
This course answers many of the most common questions about the world’s writing systems and the civilizations that created them, plus a number of questions you may never have thought to ask.
Do all writing systems descend from a single prototype, or was writing invented independently?
What one feature do the world’s writing systems have in common?
Which kinds of signs and symbols qualify as writing, and which do not?
How is the digital age changing the way we write?
Along the way, you’ll visit the great early civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Japan, and the Americas, and you’ll see how deciphering ancient scripts is a little like cracking secret codes—only far more difficult.
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01. What Is Writing.mp4
828.1 MB
02. The Origins and Development of Writing.mp4
820.2 MB
03. Where Did Our Alphabet Come From.mp4
760.8 MB
04. The Fubark. A Germanic Alphabet.mp4
801.1 MB
05. Chinese. A Logosyllabic Script.mp4
771 MB
06. Japanese. The World's Most Complex Script.mp4
794.2 MB
07. What Is Decipherment.mp4
770.1 MB
08. The Five Pillars of Decipherment.mp4
802.8 MB
09. Epigraphic Illustration.mp4
749 MB
10. The History of Language.mp4
803.7 MB
11. Proper Nouns and Cultural Context.mp4
779.4 MB
12. Bilinguals, Biscripts, and Other Constraints.mp4
769.5 MB
13. Egyptian. The First Great Decipherment.mp4
801.3 MB
14. What Do Egyptian Hieroglyphs Say.mp4
787.8 MB
15. Old Persian. Cuneiform Deciphered.mp4
822.6 MB
16. What Does Cuneiform Say.mp4
833.3 MB
17. Mycenaean Linear B. An Aegean Syllabary.mp4
838.9 MB
18. Mayan Glyphs. A New World Logosyllabary.mp4
793.3 MB
19. What Do the Mayan Glyphs Say.mp4
791.4 MB
20. Aztec Hieroglyphs. A Recent Decipherment.mp4
817.5 MB
21. Etruscan and Meroitic. Undeciphered Scripts.mp4
823.4 MB
22. Han'gul, Tengwar, and Other Featural Scripts.mp4
814.7 MB
23. Medium and Message.mp4
814.9 MB
24. The Future of Writing.mp4
858.5 MB
Marc Zender - Writing and Civilization. From Ancient Worlds to Modernity (Course Guidebook).pdf
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