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oapen-20.500.12657-633512024-03-28T08:18:56Z Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies Yeo, Geoffrey History Ancient Language Arts & Disciplines Library & Information Science Archives & Special Libraries Language Arts & Disciplines Library & Information Science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLC Library, archive and information management thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLM Library and information services Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the author’s experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, the book embeds its account of the beginnings of recording practices in a conceptual framework largely derived from archival science. Unique both in its breadth of coverage and in its distinctive perspective on early record-making and record-keeping, the book provides the only updated and synoptic overview of early recording practices available worldwide.Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students engaged in the study of archival science, archival history, and the early history of human culture. The book will also appeal to practitioners of archives and records management interested in learning more about the origins of their profession. 2023-06-07T05:44:06Z 2023-06-07T05:44:06Z 2021 book 9780367150471 9780367706272 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63351 eng application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.epub Routledge 10.4324/9780429054686 38eb1206-ba6f-4c2f-9776-0663d56803b6 10.4324/9780429054686 Taylor & Francis b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780367150471 9780367706272 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Routledge Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies provides a concise and up-to-date survey of early record-making and record-keeping practices across the world. It investigates the ways in which human activities have been recorded in different settings using different methods and technologies.Based on an in-depth analysis of literature from a wide range of disciplines, including prehistory, archaeology, Assyriology, Egyptology, and Chinese and Mesoamerican studies, the book reflects the latest and most relevant historical scholarship. Drawing upon the author’s experience as a practitioner and scholar of records and archives and his extensive knowledge of archival theory and practice, the book embeds its account of the beginnings of recording practices in a conceptual framework largely derived from archival science. Unique both in its breadth of coverage and in its distinctive perspective on early record-making and record-keeping, the book provides the only updated and synoptic overview of early recording practices available worldwide.Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies will be of interest to academics, researchers, and students engaged in the study of archival science, archival history, and the early history of human culture. The book will also appeal to practitioners of archives and records management interested in learning more about the origins of their profession.
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