𝑷𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒂𝒙𝒊 𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒊𝒄 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑲𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒖𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚
Speaker: 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐝
Time: 𝟕𝐩𝐦, 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟔𝐭𝐡
Location: 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥, 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡, 𝐓𝐒𝐓
Lecture title: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 - 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐱𝐢 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚
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: "“A very few years more and the Na-khi books will be undecipherable…they will remain closed books, no Rosetta stone would prove of value.”
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