Writing and power - Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt &amp; Jean-Pierre Vernant. Ancestor of the West: writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece (tr. Teresa Lavender Fagan), xiii+192 pages, 8 figures. 2000. Chicago (IL): University of Chicago Press; 0-226-06715-7 hardback $25 &amp; £17.50. - Jack Goody. The power of the written tradition. viii+192 pages. 2000. Washington (DC): Smithsonian Institution Press; 1-56098-987-4 hardback 18.95. - Armando Petrucci. Writing the dead: death and writing strategies in the Western tradition (tr. Michael Sullivan), xviii+163 pages, 64 illustrations. 1998. California (CA): Stanford University press; 0-8047-2859-3 hardback £25 &amp; $35.

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Volume 74, Issue 285
N. James
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00121015

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