HUM 001A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Logogram, Dactylic Hexameter, Pictogram
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~literacy: being able to read (oral literature is pre-literary) ~culture influences people"s cognitive structures (cultures and cognitive structures are different pre and post history) Face to face relations in everyday life. Printing press: global spread and exchange of ides. In pre-literature society, material culture preserves mental culture. Artwork can operate as aesthetic objects and text in an oral culture. ~pictogram; picture that represents a thing and resembles the thing it signifies. ~ideogram: picture that represents an object or concept. ~logogram:sign that represents a single word or meaningful unit of language (rather than a sound) ~alphabetic language: each letter (phonogram) represents a sound. Aetiolegies: explanations for why things happen (ex. Eponymous heroes: heroes books are named after (ex. Dynastic myths of power elites: gilgamesh, the odyssey. Religious beliefs: underworld scene in gilgamesh and the odyssey. Milman parry"s theory: people would make up the stories on the spot as they told them. Not memorized by note but also not improvisation.
