Graffiti Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Understanding

Contents\nTowards a Cross-Cultural Understanding of Graffiti: Terminology, Context, Semiotics, Documentation\nAfrica\nWriting Wherever Possible and Meaningful: Graffiti Culture in Ancient Egypt. Context, Terminology, Documentation\n‘Spray It Loud’: Hip Hop Graffiti Culture and Politics in Dar es Salaam, 2003–2018\nAmerica\nIncised Images among the Palaces and Temples: The Content and Meaning of Pre-Columbian Maya Graffiti\nGraffiti and the Media: Between Politics, Art and Vandalism\nCentral and East Asia\nOld Uyghur Graffiti Inscriptions from Central Asia\nChinese Graffiti in Dunhuang?\nTranscribed Flows and Arrhythmias: ‘Graffiti’ in Relation to Epigraphic and Artistic Trajectories in Today’s Mainland China\nIntermezzo\nThe Spray Can as an Attitude to Life between Illegal Action and Commercial Art: A Conversation on the Emergence of a Modern Graffiti Form with the Artist Mirko Reisser alias DAIM\nSouth and West Asia\nGraffiti in Ancient India: Towards the Definition of a Genre of Indian Epigraphy\nGraffiti in Middle Iranian: Some Preliminary Notes\nVoices in the Wilderness: Some Unexpected Uses of Graffiti\nMedieval and Early Modern Graffiti in Eastern Mediterranean: A New Methodological Approach\nEurope\nDocumenting Ancient Graffiti: Text, Image, Support and Access\nCurating Graffiti: The Exhibition Wände│Walls in the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\nContributors\nIndex