The existence of literacy implies a range of practical questions about writing. While attention has been given to the form of Bugis writing, there are also issues around the mechanics of writing, that is, the ways in which marks have been made on various surfaces. Bugis literacy, which began with palm leaf manuscripts, has been overwhelmingly in the form of paper manuscripts, though examples of printing, inscriptions on silver and on earthenware are also discussed and illustrated. The relationship between medium and the function of writing is explored in particular cases
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable i...
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable i...
Jawi writing is the main form of writing in various manuscripts recovered around the Archipelago, es...
The Bugis and Makasar peoples are the two largest ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, numbe...
The phrase "oral literature" is most often used to indicate the forms of expression to be found eit...
The uniqueness of the Buginese tribe is in the form of its oral and written traditions that go hand ...
The text sets out to examine ten Bugis works written in the Bugis-Makasar script, which purport to s...
Early Bugis written sources consist largely of genealogies. Assuming no significant loss of other g...
Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the ne...
A wide range of document types have been preserved written in the undeciphered scripts of the Aegean...
Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the ne...
Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the ne...
Ancient social systems have exhibited constructs of scholarships based on social configurations and ...
James C. Scott argued that the traditional non-literacy of highland minorities in mainland Southeast...
During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of ...
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable i...
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable i...
Jawi writing is the main form of writing in various manuscripts recovered around the Archipelago, es...
The Bugis and Makasar peoples are the two largest ethnic groups of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, numbe...
The phrase "oral literature" is most often used to indicate the forms of expression to be found eit...
The uniqueness of the Buginese tribe is in the form of its oral and written traditions that go hand ...
The text sets out to examine ten Bugis works written in the Bugis-Makasar script, which purport to s...
Early Bugis written sources consist largely of genealogies. Assuming no significant loss of other g...
Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the ne...
A wide range of document types have been preserved written in the undeciphered scripts of the Aegean...
Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the ne...
Previous discussions of the origins of writing in the Ancient Near East have not incorporated the ne...
Ancient social systems have exhibited constructs of scholarships based on social configurations and ...
James C. Scott argued that the traditional non-literacy of highland minorities in mainland Southeast...
During the last two decades, the (re-)discovery of thousands of manuscripts in different regions of ...
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable i...
Cultures and worldviews are inscribed by means of ‘writing’, or what Derrida calls ‘the perdurable i...
Jawi writing is the main form of writing in various manuscripts recovered around the Archipelago, es...