Writing Without Words
by Boone, Elizabeth Hill; Mignolo, Walter D.; Van Der Loo, Peter L. (CON)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1994-03-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"This is an exceptionally comprehensive and informative work on Pre-Columbian and early colonial recording systems in Mesoamerica and the Andes. The various contributions focus on a range of hieroglyphic, logographic, and mnemonic recording systems, and there are also excellent discussions of the effects of the introduction of European writing on native recording systems. The articles touching on this latter topic all make clear the complexity of links, and the subtle interplay of changes, between record-keeping and ideology. An important and challenging book."--Gary Urton, Colgate University
Table of Contents
| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Writing and Recording Knowledge | |
| Literacy among the Pre-Columbian Maya: A Comparative | |
| Aztec Pictorial Histories: Records without Words | |
| Voicing the Painted Image: A Suggestion for Reading the Reverse of the Codez Cospi | |
| The Text in the Body, the Body in the Text: The Embodied Sign in Mixtec Writing | |
| Hearing the Echoes of Verbal Art in Mixtec Writing | |
| Mexican Codices, Maps and Lienzos as Social Contracts | |
| Primers for Memory: Cartographic Histories and Nahua Identity | |
| Representation in the Sixteenth Century and the Colonial Image of the Inca | |
| Signs and Their Transmission: The Question of the Book in the New World | |
| Object and Alphabet: Andean Indians and Documents in the Colonial Period | |
| Afterword: Writing and Recorded Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Situations | |
| Index | |
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