Back from the edge, a de-centred approach to ancient graffiti in Brazilian research
Lourdes Feitosa,
Renata Garraffoni,
Pedro Paulo Funari
Abstract:The paper starts with the trajectory of ancient graffiti study since the 19th century. This study was well inserted in the scholarly context, paying particular attention to the differences of language use in relation to standard learned Latin (or Greek). In the 20th century, beyond scholarship, there was an overwhelming normative and historical perception that graffiti represented most of all unlearned people, those who were unable to have access to learned culture. This improved the knowledge about graffiti, … Show more
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