Endangered Alphabets Second Edition

Download or read book Endangered Alphabets Second Edition written by Tim Brookes and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its first exhibition in 2010, Tim Brookes' art/woodwork/design/calligraphy/language/anthropology creation, the Endangered Alphabets Project, has been exhibited all over North America, including displays and talks at Harvard, Yale, and the Smithsonian.It has also added a new dimension to the important work being conducted by the endangered languages movement: the Endangered Alphabets raise the question of what happens when a culture loses, or is forbidden, the way of writing it created, and which expresses its history and identity?This groundbreaking endeavor--Brookes coined the term "endangered alphabets"--is now followed all over the world. This expanded second edition tells the story of how the Endangered Alphabets were born, how they grew, the questions the project raised and continues to raise, and why it is vital to protect and preserve minority cultures everywhere.