๐ท๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐
Speaker: ๐๐ซ๐จ๐. ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐
Time: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ, ๐
๐ซ๐ข๐๐๐ฒ ๐
๐๐๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ญ๐ก
Location: ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฅ, ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ, ๐๐๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก, ๐๐๐
Lecture title: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ - ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฑ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ญ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ก๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐ฐ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐
Picture writing and hieroglyphs are often seen as writing technologies that belong firmly to the past. But what does it mean to write in pictures, and how can a tradition of "picture writing" survive into the present day?
From the 1920s to the mid-20th century, the botanist/anthropologist Joseph Rock was the first to seriously study the Naxi pictographs of southwest China, a tradition he thought would disappear if he did not record it. In 1952 he made a dire prediction: "โA very few years more and the Na-khi books will be undecipherableโฆthey will remain closed books, no Rosetta stone would prove of value.โ
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