What Is the Anthropology of Writing?

The Anthropology of Writing: Understanding Textually Mediated Worlds

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3-32

  Barton, David ^a   Papen, Uta ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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