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Writing, Literacy, and Performance in the New and Old Worlds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2009

Joyce Marcus
Joyce Marcus
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Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079, USA
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Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , October 1995 , pp. 325 - 331
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Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1995

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