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The Epistemic Legacy: Studying the collection, preservation, and transfer of knowledge in premodern societies

collect and preserve

collect and preserve

Eun-Jeung Lee, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl – 2021

by: Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl, Eun-Jeung Lee || The use of writing for the preservation and transmission of administrative, sci-entific, literary or religious knowledge – to name but a few instances – has a long history in ancient and pre-modern Near and Far Eastern civilizations. From the third millennium BCE onwards, systematic societal implementation of writing produced an incredible amount of written documents on e.g. clay, stone, bone, papyrus, bamboo, plant leaves, parchment or paper. Together with the emergence and systematic production of written data, the need for keeping, even safeguard-ing at least part of them became an important issue. Writing as a social institution requires long-term organizational framework to take charge of collecting and preserving written lore. In most societies...

Titel
The Epistemic Legacy: Studying the collection, preservation, and transfer of knowledge in premodern societies
Verfasser
Eun-Jeung Lee, Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Jochem Kahl
Verlag
Harrassowitz
Datum
2021-02-24
Erschienen in
Collect and Preserve: Institutional Contexts of Epistemic Knowledge in Pre-modern Societies; Harrassowitz - 2021; The Epistemic Legacy: Studying the collection, preservation, and transfer of knowledge in premodern societies; p.1-20
Sprache
eng
Art
Text