WHAT IS ANTHROPOLOGY

ISBN: 9781397322944 Géneros: JHM Sinópsis: Excerpt from What Is Anthropology A Lecture Delivered in the National Museum Washington D C March 18 1882The recording of speech also has had its peculiar and interesting course of life Beginning with mere tally sticks hunting and gambling scores and such mnemotechnic de vices the student may carefully thread his way through rockcarving and picture writings to hieroglyphics The abbreviation of hieroglyphic symbols to words and syllables and even to sound symbols took place very slowly but the process may be traced in the older and later Egyptian and Chaldean writings The art of printing is the last stage in the journey of graphic representation The study of Indian pictographs as well as the sculptures of Mexico and Central America promises to furnish some very important chapters in the history of linguisticsAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works